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    The Dog Stars: The hope-filled story of a world changed by global catastrophe

    Peter Heller

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    Soon to be a major film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley and Josh Brolin.

    'A love-letter to things of beauty' GILLIAN FLYNN

    'Magical and life-affirming' GUARDIAN

    'A perfectly pitched post-apocalyptic tale' MARIE CLAIRE

    THE ROAD - but with hope.

    Hig, bereaved and traumatised after global disaster, has three things to live for - his dog Jasper, his aggressive but helpful neighbour, and his Cessna aeroplane. He's just about surviving, so long as he only takes his beloved plane for short journeys, and saves his remaining fuel.

    But, just once, he picks up a message from another pilot, and eventually the temptation to find out who else is still alive becomes irresistible. So he takes his plane over the horizon, knowing that he won't have enough fuel to get back. What follows is scarier and more life-affirming than he could have imagined. And his story, THE DOG STARS, is a book unlike any you have ever read.

    Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2013.

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    Praise for The Dog Stars: The hope-filled story of a world changed by global catastrophe

    • 'The Road - but with hope' - GQ'Magical and life-affirming' - Guardian'Sad, but hopeful... A perfectly pitched post-apocalyptic tale of survival and emotional sustenance in a changed world' - Marie Claire'A poetic, moving and ultimately rewarding read' - SFX'A dreamy, postapocalyptic love letter to things of beauty, big and small: a twitching trout, a can of Sprite, empathy, sex, decency, and a good dog' - Gillian Flynn, author of GONE GIRL'The Road crossed with a post-apocalyptic romance...[engages] deep emotions to spine-chilling (and suspenseful) effect' - Lawrence Norfolk, Guardian Books of the Year'Incredibly believable...brutally honest' - Sci-Fi NowExtraordinary... One of those books that makes you happy for literature - Junot Diaz

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    Peter Heller

    Peter Heller

    PETER HELLER is the award-winning author of THE DOG STARS, a New York Times bestseller and a Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle and Atlantic Book of the Year, and THE RIVER, an Observer Thriller of the Year.

    Born and raised in New York, he has travelled the world as an expedition kayaker, writing about challenging descents in the Pamirs, the Tien Shan mountains, the Caucuses, Central America and Peru.

    He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received an MFA in fiction and poetry, and won a Michener fellowship for his epic poem 'The Psalms of Malvine'.

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