The Resource The painter, Peter Heller
The painter, Peter Heller
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The item The painter, Peter Heller represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The painter, Peter Heller represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- "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, a well-known expressionist painter named Jim Stegner shot a man in a bar. The man lived, Jim served his time, and he has learned to live with the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. Jim enjoys a quiet life in the valleys of Colorado. He works with a lovely model, he doesn't drink, he goes fly fishing in the evenings. His paintings fetch excellent prices at a posh gallery in Santa Fe. He is--if he can admit it--almost happy. One day, driving down a dirt road, Jim sees a man beating a small horse. Jim leaps out of the truck, tackles the man, and bloodies his nose. The man is Dell, a cruel hunting outfitter notorious among locals. Jim cannot shake his rage over the little horse. The next night, under a full moon, telling himself he is just going night fishing, he returns to the creek where Dell has his camp and kills him. As Jim tries to come to terms with what he has done, he must evade the police, navigate his own conscience, and escape the members of Dell's clan set on revenge. And he paints the whole time; trying to make sense of his actions. Traveling from the rough adobe cottages and rivers of Colorado to the bright streets and galleries of Santa Fe, aching with grief and transcendent with beauty, The Painter is a story about art and love and violence, and using the remnants of hardship to create a rich life"-- Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Center Point Large Print edition.
- Extent
- pages ; cm.
- Isbn
- 9781628990966
- Label
- The painter
- Title
- The painter
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Heller
- Subject
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- trueArtists
- Abstract expressionism -- Fiction
- Artists -- Fiction
- Life change events -- Fiction
- trueFormer convicts
- Ex-convicts -- Fiction
- trueAbstract expressionism
- Large type books
- truePsychological fiction
- Large type books
- trueLife change events
- trueFirst person narratives
- trueMurder
- trueViolence in men
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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, a well-known expressionist painter named Jim Stegner shot a man in a bar. The man lived, Jim served his time, and he has learned to live with the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. Jim enjoys a quiet life in the valleys of Colorado. He works with a lovely model, he doesn't drink, he goes fly fishing in the evenings. His paintings fetch excellent prices at a posh gallery in Santa Fe. He is--if he can admit it--almost happy. One day, driving down a dirt road, Jim sees a man beating a small horse. Jim leaps out of the truck, tackles the man, and bloodies his nose. The man is Dell, a cruel hunting outfitter notorious among locals. Jim cannot shake his rage over the little horse. The next night, under a full moon, telling himself he is just going night fishing, he returns to the creek where Dell has his camp and kills him. As Jim tries to come to terms with what he has done, he must evade the police, navigate his own conscience, and escape the members of Dell's clan set on revenge. And he paints the whole time; trying to make sense of his actions. Traveling from the rough adobe cottages and rivers of Colorado to the bright streets and galleries of Santa Fe, aching with grief and transcendent with beauty, The Painter is a story about art and love and violence, and using the remnants of hardship to create a rich life"-- Provided by publisher
- Summary
- Struggling with dark impulses after serving time for attempted murder, a successful artist gives in to his obsessions to kill an abusive troublemaker before fleeing authorities and the man's vengeful clan.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10301604
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1959-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Heller, Peter
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3608.E454
- LC item number
- P35 2014b
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Artists
- Abstract expressionism
- Ex-convicts
- Life change events
- Large type books
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The painter, Peter Heller
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn871200261
- Edition
- Center Point Large Print edition.
- Extent
- pages ; cm.
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781628990966
- Isbn Type
- (library binding : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2014007829
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)871200261
- Label
- The painter, Peter Heller
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn871200261
- Edition
- Center Point Large Print edition.
- Extent
- pages ; cm.
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781628990966
- Isbn Type
- (library binding : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2014007829
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)871200261
Subject
- trueAbstract expressionism
- Abstract expressionism -- Fiction
- trueArtists
- Artists -- Fiction
- Ex-convicts -- Fiction
- trueFirst person narratives
- trueFormer convicts
- Large type books
- Large type books
- trueLife change events
- Life change events -- Fiction
- trueMurder
- truePsychological fiction
- trueViolence in men
Genre
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
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