{"product_id":"the-dog-stars-9780307950475","title":"The Dog Stars","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of \u003ci\u003eThe River\u003c\/i\u003e In this \"end-of-the-world novel more like a rapturous beginning\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle), \u003c\/i\u003e Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. His gripping story is \"an ode to friendship between two men...the strong bond between a human and a dog, and a reminder of what is worth living for\" (\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHig's wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail, only to find something that is both better and worse than anything he could ever hope for.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePETER HELLER is the best-selling author of three novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Painter \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCeline\u003c\/i\u003e. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in both fiction and poetry. An award-winning adventure writer and a longtime contributor to NPR, Heller is a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eOutside \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, \u003ci\u003eMen's Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic Adventure\u003c\/i\u003e, and a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eBloomberg Businessweek\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of several nonfiction books, including \u003ci\u003eKook, The Whale Warriors\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Denver, Colorado.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50583742841106,"sku":"9780307950475","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f63db24d-8485-4e85-a67a-3cf30f9845fa.jpg?v=1732031197","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-dog-stars-9780307950475","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}