Books by Peter Heller
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English
review 1: Although I was ambivalent about the writing (some beautiful phrases but also some horribly awkward "sentences"), I found the story (albeit plodding at times) haunting with its overall question of "what does it mean to be human." Unlike many post apocalyptic stories, this one is m...
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English
review 1: as the publisher says, this book is "achingly beautiful'. The painter lives in his head, and describes it so vividly that we can live there too .... while he creates, while he mourns, while he fly fishes.... He lives with beauty, creativity and sorrow. Though fiction, the p...
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English
review 1: This was a pretty fun and fast read. I finished the book on my 49th birthday, and despite having grown up on the beach; in fact in 'Surf City', also known as Huntington Beach, I never learned to surf. I loved boogie boarding as a kid, and enjoy body surfing even today at every op...