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The Painter

Peter Heller

Hardcover | Pages: 364 pages

Rating: 3.78 | 12352 Users | 1623 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Painter
ISBN:	0385352093 (ISBN13: 9780385352093)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.peterheller.net/the-painter/
Literary Awards:	Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction (2015)

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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. Jim Stegner has seen his share of violence and loss. Years ago he shot a man in a bar. His marriage disintegrated. He grieved the one thing he loved. In the wake of tragedy, Jim, a well-known expressionist painter, abandoned the art scene of Santa Fe to start fresh in the valleys of rural Colorado. Now he spends his days painting and fly-fishing, trying to find a way to live with the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. He works with a lovely model. His paintings fetch excellent prices. But one afternoon, on a dirt road, Jim comes across a man beating a small horse, and a brutal encounter rips his quiet life wide open. Fleeing Colorado, chased by men set on retribution, Jim returns to New Mexico, tormented by his own relentless conscience. A stunning, savage novel of art and violence, love and grief, The Painter is the story of a man who longs to transcend the shadows in his heart, a man intent on using the losses he has suffered to create a meaningful life.

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Title	:	The Painter
Author	:	Peter Heller
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 364 pages
Published	:	May 6th 2014 by Knopf
Categories	:	Fiction. Art. Contemporary. Literary Fiction

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At first glance, it seems that The Painter Peter Hellers ravishing second novel has little in common with Dog Stars, his debut book that positioned him as a writer to watch. Yet each, in its own way, chronicles a journey toward spiritual regeneration, a journey to finding grace in a merciless universe. The Painter reconfirms that Peter Heller has a massive talent. Our narrator is Jim Stegner, an expressionist New Mexican artist, an avid fly fisherman, and the father of a teenage girl whose

When I first started this book I had some trouble getting into it. What kept me reading were the wonderful words and beautiful descriptions of scenery and wildlife and the compelling, but complicated persona that is the character Jim Stegner. This is a novel of contrasts, dark and gritty alongside beauty and peace.Jim is a haunted man, a man at war, not in some other country, but within his own self. He seeks peace in painting and fly fishing and there are many descriptions of both. He is

[4+]"What the f--- are you doing? Stop!" I repeatedly shouted to Jim Stegner, the sensitive, violent, macho, gentle, out-of-control, fisherman-artist in The Painter. Of course he didn't listen and made mistake after mistake, keeping me off balance and held captive for 364 pages. Heller writes exquisitely. The vivid descriptions of Stegner's paintings were more than enough reward for sitting through multiple fishing expeditions. I could picture each painting and each one stunned me.

A great story, The Painter by Peter Heller focuses on Jim Stegner, avid fisherman and well known artist. The first sentence, I never imagined I would shoot a man, lets us know that our protagonist has a deep undercurrent of anger that can boil over into violence. Even though the anger / violence is there, it continually surprises Jim. Perhaps the emotions are a direct result of Jims grief, of his sorrow at the losses he suffered. These emotions also spill over into his art. Sometimes it's like a

More like a 2.5 maybe?This one was a hard one for me to rate. There are some things about this book I love and some I hated. First, I love Peter Heller's writing style. This is his second book I have read; I also read The River and loved it! He uses very short sentences and is very descriptive but in very few words. It's hard to explain but for some reason I really connect with this style. It seems to make me feel things very intensely, if I was creeped out by something I felt very creeped out;

One of the more annoying things about social media or at least some of the people I'm friends with are the vague posts decrying all the "drama" in their lives. "I'm sick of all the drama," they say, or else they blame other people for bringing this drama into their lives. But what I always notice is the supreme lack of self-knowledge these posts reflect, because here's a newsflash: if there's constant drama in your life, you're the one inviting it. It doesn't happen by accident and the

I'm not quite sure why I liked The Painter so much. I can tell you it didn't start out that way. It did start out with sort of a bang but then I was like "What the hey?". I held out, kept reading and soon got into the rhythm of Heller's style of writing. The story clicked and by book's end I decided it was pretty good, 4 stars in fact.If I had to pick an audience I'd say this is a man's book. But that's not quite right either as the main character is a quandary of description. Jim Stegner. He's