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Peter Heller, in conversation with Sean Prentiss--The Guide--ONLINE!

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"Peter Heller is the poet laureate of the literary thriller. --Michael Koryta, New York Times best-selling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead

 

Kingfisher Lodge, nestled in a canyon on a mile and a half of the most pristine river water on the planet, is known by locals as Billionaire's Mile and is locked behind a heavy gate. Sandwiched between barbed wire and a meadow with a sign that reads Don't Get Shot! the resort boasts boutique fishing at its finest. Safe from viruses that have plagued America for years, Kingfisher offers a respite for wealthy clients. Now it also promises a second chance for Jack, a return to normalcy after a young life filled with loss. When he is assigned to guide a well-known singer, his only job is to rig her line, carry her gear, and steer her to the best trout he can find.

 

But then a human scream pierces the night, and Jack soon realizes that this idyllic fishing lodge may be merely a cover for a far more sinister operation. A novel as gripping as it is lyrical, as frightening as it is moving, The Guide is another masterpiece from Peter Heller.

 

Peter Heller is the national best-selling author of The River, Celine, The Painter, and The Dog Stars. The Painter was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and won the prestigious Reading the West Book Award, shared in the past by Western writers such as Cormac McCarthy and Terry Tempest Williams, and The Dog Stars, which was published to critical acclaim and lauded as a breakout bestseller, has been published in twenty-two languages to date. Heller is also the author of four nonfiction books, including Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave, which was awarded the National Outdoor Book Award for Literature. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in poetry and fiction and lives in Denver, Colorado.

 

Sean Prentiss is the award winning author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave, which won the 2015 National Outdoor Book Award, and Crosscut: Poems, a memoir-in-poems about his time as a trail builder in the Pacific Northwest. Sean is the co-editor of The Science of Story: The Brain Behind Creative Nonfiction and co-author of two textbooks, Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology and  Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology. He is also Backcountry Magazine's poet laureate. 

 

 

Event date: 
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 - 7:00pm
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The Guide: A novel By Peter Heller Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781984898968
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Published: Vintage - May 10th, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where he uncovers a plot of shocking menace amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests.


The River: A novel (Vintage Contemporaries) By Peter Heller Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780525563532
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Published: Vintage - March 3rd, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of The Guide and The Dog Stars comes the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip—a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence.


The Dog Stars (Vintage Contemporaries) By Peter Heller Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780307950475
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Published: Vintage - May 7th, 2013

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The River: In this "end-of-the-world novel more like a rapturous beginning" (San Francisco Chronicle), Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows.


The Painter (Vintage Contemporaries) By Peter Heller Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780804170154
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Published: Vintage - March 3rd, 2015

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).


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Celine: A novel (Vintage Contemporaries) By Peter Heller Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781101973486
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Published: Vintage - January 2nd, 2018

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The River and The Dog Stars comes another "gorgeously wrought story—equal parts character study and mystery—a young woman asks Celine, a badass Brooklyn private eye, to investigate the death of her father, a nature photographer" (Entertainment Weekly).


Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave By Peter Heller Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780743294201
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Published: Free Press - July 13th, 2010

With grit, poetry, and humor, Peter Heller, acclaimed author of The River and The Whale Warriors recounts his remarkable journey of discovery—of surfing, an entirely new challenge; of the ocean’s beauty and power; of the strange surf subculture; of love; and, most of all, of how to seek adventure while crafting a meaningful life.

Author of the New York Ti


Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave By Sean Prentiss Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780826355911
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Published: University of New Mexico Press - May 1st, 2015

When the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of the American West remains unknown and has become part of American folklore.


Peter Heller, in conversation with Sean Prentiss--The Guide--ONLINE!
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The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where he uncovers a plot of shocking menace amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests.

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