![]() ![]() I am the one who is flying over all of it looking down. “ 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 to be destined to kill again. This book is also about flying, and the enjoyment Hig experiences when soaring through the air over the abandoned landscape in a small 1956 Cessna that he calls The Beast. ![]() However, he and Bangley have each other’s backs and share food from the vegetable garden Hig keeps, and the deer he hunts in the forests around them. He is not entirely alone, as he has a neighbour, Bangley, a tough fighting man with an arsenal of weapons not a natural friend for Hig. Hig has survived, his wife is dead, and he lives in a small hangar of an abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper. This is a post-apocalyptic tale, set in an America where everyone bar a few people has died of a flu pandemic. There is a shout on the cover of this book by Junot Diaz: “One of those books that makes you happy for literature.” It is true: The Dog Stars made me happy that I am a reader I felt a bit empty when it finished and I will go back to re-read one day. ![]()
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