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The Painter : a Novel by Peter Heller - undifferentiated, Peter Heller is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Painter : a Novel about?

"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

Who reads The Painter : a Novel?

Author

Peter Heller - undifferentiated, Peter Heller

Publisher

New York: Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, A Division of Random House LLC

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804170154

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Fiction, Mystery

Rating

3.76 / 5 (149 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14