What
you
are guaranteed to get from The Dog Stars: a
hunting-fishing-nature-airplane-dog-survivalist drama. What you might
not expect: being part of the rush of adventure from inside the head of
Hig, the hunter-gatherer-pilot-survivalist. Hig's
moment-by-moment thoughts are a necessary and constant guard in the
devastated
and altered land (the West) where he continues to find beauty and
solace in the
natural world even though people hunt and kill each other and there is
only one
friend and one dog to trust. Hig sets out in his 1950s Cessna aircraft
to
answer a vague transmission, because he wants to believe there will be
a new
beginning, or if not that, an end. The
Dog Stars is unnerving, enthralling, moving. Peter Heller, an
adventure writer/editor (Outdoors and National Geographic
Adventure magazines) is in touch with more than trees and streams
with this one. SLM