Wintering: A novel

Wintering: A novel

A highly acclaimed novelist now gives us a true epic: a love story that spans sixty years, generationsâ€™ worth of feuds, and secrets withheld and revealed.

The two principal stories at play in Wintering are bound together when the elderly, demented Harry Eide escapes his sickbed and vanishes into the forbidding, northernmost wilderness that surrounds the town of Gunflint, Minnesotaâ€”instantly changing the Eide family, and many other lives, forever. Heâ€™d done this once before, more than thirty years earlier in 1963, fleeing a crumbling marriage and bringing along Gustav, his eighteen-year-old son, pitching this audacious, potentially fatal schemeâ€”winter already coming on, in these woods, on these watersâ€”as a reenactment of the ancient voyageursâ€™ journeys of discovery.

Itâ€™s certainly something Gus has never forgotten, nor the Devilâ€™s Maw of a river, a variety of beloved (possibly fantastical) maps, the ice floes and waterfalls (neither especially appealing from a canoe), a magnificent bear, the endless portages, a magical abandoned shack, Thanksgiving and Christmas improvised at the far end of the earth, the brutal cold and sheer beauty of it all. And men hunting other men.

Nowâ€”with his father pronounced deadâ€”Gus relates their adventure in vivid detail to Berit Lovig, whoâ€™d spent much of her life waiting for Harry, her passionate conviction finally fulfilled over the last two decades. So, a middle-aged man rectifying his personal history, an aging lady wrestling with her own, and with the entire saga of a town and region theyâ€™d helped to form and were in turn formed by, relentlessly and unforgettably.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-06-07
UnitCount 1
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9781101946466

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Vintage
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-06-07
UnitCount	1
Format	Kindle eBook
EANs	9781101946466

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