The Painter
A novel
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4.2 • 350 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the national bestselling author of The River and The Dog Stars comes a "carefully composed story about one man’s downward turning life in the American West” (The Boston Globe).
After having shot a man in a Santa Fe bar, the famous artist Jim Stegner served his time and has since struggled to manage the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. Now he lives a quiet life ... until the day that he comes across a hunting guide beating a small horse, and a brutal act of new violence rips his quiet life right open. Pursued by men dead set on retribution, Jim is left with no choice but to return to New Mexico and the high-profile life he left behind, where he’ll reckon with past deeds and the dark shadows in his own heart.
Customer Reviews
illustrations…
This man’s writing moves me.
The story itself is always great make you think and reflect and the characters are interesting and well written, you care about them, but for me it’s the way he can make you see, hear, feel a moment in his descriptions. Pine needles against a scratchless sky…her laughter floated into my eyelashes.. these words are magical. Just wow.
Thank you Peter.
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This book is a gift
This story is powerful and fast. Never have I fished. I don't like them. I don't eat them. And yet, I was mesmerized by the beauty of those sequences.
I read this first for the story. Driven, sad, colorful. I reread it for the music embedded in this tale.
Note to Peter Heller: write faster!
A reader, Anna