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The Painter

Peter Heller

Hardcover | Pages: 364 pages

Rating: 3.78 | 12352 Users | 1623 Reviews

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Title	:	The Painter
Author	:	Peter Heller
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 364 pages
Published	:	May 6th 2014 by Knopf
Categories	:	Fiction. Art. Contemporary. Literary Fiction

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Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past.

Jim Stegner has seen his share of violence and loss. Years ago he shot a man in a bar. His marriage disintegrated. He grieved the one thing he loved. In the wake of tragedy, Jim, a well-known expressionist painter, abandoned the art scene of Santa Fe to start fresh in the valleys of rural Colorado. Now he spends his days painting and fly-fishing, trying to find a way to live with the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. He works with a lovely model. His paintings fetch excellent prices. But one afternoon, on a dirt road, Jim comes across a man beating a small horse, and a brutal encounter rips his quiet life wide open. Fleeing Colorado, chased by men set on retribution, Jim returns to New Mexico, tormented by his own relentless conscience.

A stunning, savage novel of art and violence, love and grief, The Painter is the story of a man who longs to transcend the shadows in his heart, a man intent on using the losses he has suffered to create a meaningful life.

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Original Title:	The Painter
ISBN:	0385352093 (ISBN13: 9780385352093)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.peterheller.net/the-painter/
Literary Awards:	Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction (2015)

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the story of a big (and I mean that literally and figuratively) man's man - 'pretty famous' artist by day painting ducks in heat, family portraits, gunshots to heads psychopath-assassin fisherman by night. Handsome, well built and trying to do the good things other people are too stupid to do.......For someone who loved 'The Dog Stars' - I am beyond disappointed in a book of implausible silly cliches and little more.......If I had to read that he was going to have another cheroot I was going to



At first glance, it seems that The Painter Peter Hellers ravishing second novel has little in common with Dog Stars, his debut book that positioned him as a writer to watch. Yet each, in its own way, chronicles a journey toward spiritual regeneration, a journey to finding grace in a merciless universe. The Painter reconfirms that Peter Heller has a massive talent. Our narrator is Jim Stegner, an expressionist New Mexican artist, an avid fly fisherman, and the father of a teenage girl whose

More like a 2.5 maybe?This one was a hard one for me to rate. There are some things about this book I love and some I hated. First, I love Peter Heller's writing style. This is his second book I have read; I also read The River and loved it! He uses very short sentences and is very descriptive but in very few words. It's hard to explain but for some reason I really connect with this style. It seems to make me feel things very intensely, if I was creeped out by something I felt very creeped out;

[4+]"What the f--- are you doing? Stop!" I repeatedly shouted to Jim Stegner, the sensitive, violent, macho, gentle, out-of-control, fisherman-artist in The Painter. Of course he didn't listen and made mistake after mistake, keeping me off balance and held captive for 364 pages. Heller writes exquisitely. The vivid descriptions of Stegner's paintings were more than enough reward for sitting through multiple fishing expeditions. I could picture each painting and each one stunned me.

I happen to be an artist and a fisherman. So is Jim Stegner, the main character of Peter Heller's amazing second novel. Heller's prose is some of the finest I've read in recent memory. He treats this story like an open canvas that Jim Stegner himself might paint on. Heller's brush strokes are pitch perfect in this passionate and heartfelt adventure. I loved this book.

This was such a beautifully written book. I enjoyed this so much. One of those books that transports you and makes you feel like you're walking with the character, or that you ARE the character. Such a strong read, so colorful and moving. 5 stars.