The Painter by Peter Heller.
Bestselling author Peter Heller’s elegantly crafted and poignant new book The Painter has been chosen by Amazon’s editors as a Best Book of 2014. Amazon described the book as “an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past…A stunning, savage novel of art and violence, love and grief, The Painter is the story of a man who longs to transcend the shadows in his heart, a man intent on using the losses he has suffered to create a meaningful life.”
Heller is an award-winning adventure writer who has variously worked as a logger, fisherman, kayak instructor, construction worker, and river guide. He is a longtime contributor to NPR, Outside magazine, Men’s Journal, and National Geographic Adventure. His first novel, The Dog Stars, was an overnight bestseller and his second book, The Painter, brings his art to a new level.
Heller speaks at literary and other events around the country on a regular basis. For inquiries about bringing him to your neck of the woods, contact Books In Common.
