The Painter - Peter Heller

The Painter

By Peter Heller

  • Release Date: 2014-05-06
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
Score: 4
4
From 316 Ratings

Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the national bestselling author of The River and The Dog Stars comes a "carefully composed story about one man’s downward turning life in the American West” (The Boston Globe).

After having shot a man in a Santa Fe bar, the famous artist Jim Stegner served his time and has since struggled to manage the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. Now he lives a quiet life ... until the day that he comes across a hunting guide beating a small horse, and a brutal act of new violence rips his quiet life right open. Pursued by men dead set on retribution, Jim is left with no choice but to return to New Mexico and the high-profile life he left behind, where he’ll reckon with past deeds and the dark shadows in his own heart.

Look for Peter Heller's new novel, The Last Ranger, coming soon!

Reviews

  • The Painter

    5
    By Wasted Monday.
    The mere idea of painting a portrait of society, with a spotlight focused on the confusing grey between good and evil, where most reside, is intriguing. With stylistic writing, Heller has pulled it off. With a dash of cobalt where most would use cadmium. Where we see good, many see evil or where many see evil, someone sees good. Such is democracy in a heavily sin spiced world. Well done, especially if you like rare.
  • The Painter

    5
    By SPBerko
    Excellent, very well written and Heller keeps the tension through out.