"The Dog Stars" is a love story, but not just in the typical sense. And only after facing death, as the two initially protect themselves from him, does Hig realizes he still wants to live. It's while he's on this trip that he stumbles across a woman and her hard-scrabbled father. He decides to explore and see if anyone's out there. Three years earlier, Hig heard a signal as he was flying over a tower. I am the one who is flying over all of it looking down. "And for a time while flying, seeing all this as a hawk would see it, I am myself somehow freed from the sticky details: I am not grief sick nor stiffer in the joints nor ever lonely, nor someone who lives with the nausea of having killed and seems destined to kill again.
Hig flies a 1956 Cessna, and the plane is not just a mode of escape but a mode of living: In his former life, Hig was a contractor and a poet, but that was before the massive flu that killed his pregnant wife and most of the human race. They've been living in this world for nine years, able to survive because of Bangley's expertise with guns and Hig's ability to hunt and fish. Together they guard and protect their surroundings from intruders. Hig lives in an airport with his dog, Jasper, and an eccentric but lovable neighbor, Bangley.
The only things to be afraid of in "The Dog Stars" are other humans.Ĭlearly influenced by Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," "The Dog Stars" is a heart-wrenching and richly written story about loss and survival - and, more important, about learning to love again. Peter Heller is the latest author to explore a post-apocalyptic world - but with one key difference. Justin Cronin examined this with style in his bestselling novel "The Passage," and Colson Whitehead brought much to the genre with "Zone One," a zombie novel set in New York City. There's a trend among contemporary literary writers to examine what happens when the world we live in is no longer recognizable. Most feature zombies or vampires, otherworldly creatures who serve as metaphors for the horror of the unknown. In recent years, a slew of post-apocalyptic novels have been published.
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