Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout bestseller The Dog Stars, shares his second work of fiction--which Publishers Weekly has awarded a coveted Boxed and Starred Review--The Painter. When a brutal encounter rips artist Jim Stegner's life open, he is suddenly faced with his haunted past as he flees his quiet Colorado life and returns to New Mexico. A stunning, savage novel of art and violence, love and grief, The Painter is an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful novel about an artist trying to outrun his past.
Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout bestseller The Dog Stars, shares his second work of fiction--which Publishers Weekly has awarded a coveted Boxed and Starred Review--The Painter. When a brutal encounter rips artist Jim Stegner's life open, he is suddenly faced with his haunted past as he flees his quiet Colorado life and returns to New Mexico. A stunning, savage novel of art and violence, love and grief, The Painter is an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful novel about an artist trying to outrun his past.
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