The painter: a novel

✍ Scribed by Peter Heller

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 189 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0385352085

✦ Synopsis

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.

Years ago, Jim Stegner shot a man in a bar. The man lived, Jim served his time, and he has learned to control the dark impulses that threaten to overtake him. Jim lives a quiet life. He doesn't drink. He goes fishing. He works as a painter, selling his art for good money at a gallery in Santa Fe. One day, driving down a dirt road, Jim sees a man beating a small horse. Without thinking, he stops, jumps out of the truck, and tackles the man, punching him and breaking his nose. The man is Dell, an outfitter notorious among locals, and the altercation awakens an anger inside of Jim. At night Jim paints. He paints a man digging a grave. Horrified, Jim hides the painting, but he can't hide his rage over the horse. Under a full moon, Jim goes to the river, and running into Dell, drunk...