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  Title

  The painter : a novel First Edition.

  Author

  Heller, Peter, 1959-  

  Publisher:

  Alfred A. Knopf,

  Pub date:

  2014.

  Pages:

  361 pages ;

  ISBN:

  9780385352093

  Item info:

  3 copies available at Fairfield Public Library, Fairfield Woods Branch Library, and Pequot Library.
  

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    Fairfield Public Library	Copies	Material Type	Current Location
    FICTION HELLER	1	Book	Lower Stacks
    Fairfield Woods Branch Library	Copies	Material Type	Current Location
    FICTION HELLER	1	Book	Main Floor
    Pequot Library	Copies	Material Type	Current Location
    FIC HELLER	1	Book	Standard shelving location - Pequot

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  Personal Author:

  Heller, Peter, 1959-

  Title:

  The painter : a novel / Peter Heller.

  Edition:

  First Edition.

  Physical description:

  361 pages ; 22 cm.

  Summary:

  "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. And he paints the whole time; trying to make sense of his actions. Traveling from the rough adobe cottages and rivers of Colorado to the bright streets and galleries of Santa Fe, aching with grief and transcendent with beauty, The Painter is a story about art and love and violence, and using the remnants of hardship to create a rich life"-- Provided by publisher.

  Summary:

  "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"-- Provided by publisher.

  Summary:

  Having served time for shooting a man, Jim Stegner gets good money for his paintings at a Santa Fe gallery and has sworn off violence. Then he spies a bad-news local named Dell beating a horse and intervenes; a painting he does of a man digging a grave proves prophetic, as Jim again encounters Dell and kills him.

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  Subject term:

  Artists--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Abstract expressionism--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Ex-convicts--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Life change events--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  FICTION / Literary. bisacsh

  Subject term:

  FICTION / Crime. bisacsh

  Subject term:

  FICTION / Westerns. bisacsh

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