Forget about that, and happiness, and fulfilment and contentment and satisfaction. Once upon a time, all literature served us up was the grim certainty that the world had ended and survival, if fate was so generous as to hand you that prize, was about the best you could hope for.Īh yes, hope. The Boston Globe also had praise for the novel, stating, 'Peter Heller serves up an insightful account of physical, mental, and spiritual survival unfolded in dramatic and often lyrical prose, a difficult tale in which unexpected hope persistently flickers amid darkness.That’s not to say it’s dropped all its end-of-the-world, doom-and-gloom garb in favour of bright summery colours and a jaunty gait, but an increasing number of writers are beginning to ask themselves, in ways usually poetic and insightful – once the apocalypse has exhausted its first violent civilisation-ending burst of energy, what happens then? But it also succeeds as a dark, poetic and funny novel in its own right.' NPR described the novel as crackerjack and said 'With its soulful hero, macabre villains, tender (if thin) love story and action scenes staggered at perfectly spaced intervals, the story unfolds with the vigor of the film it will undoubtedly become. When a mysterious transmission comes through on the radio while he’s flying his old Cessna, it sparks a hunt for the provenance of the sound.

Set in Colorado, a man lives a lonesome existence in an airplane hangar with his dog and a door gunman he has befriended.

The Dog Stars is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel by Peter Heller.

The dog stars review