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A riveting, powerful debut novel from an award-winning adventure writer: the story of a pilot surviving in a world filled with loss--and of what he is willing to risk to rediscover, against all odds, connection, love, and grace. Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, h...

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Main Author: Heller, Peter, 1959-
Other Authors: Deakins, Mark
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Books on Tape, 2012.
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End of the world > Fiction.
Survival > Fiction.
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Dystopian fiction.
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Summary:A riveting, powerful debut novel from an award-winning adventure writer: the story of a pilot surviving in a world filled with loss--and of what he is willing to risk to rediscover, against all odds, connection, love, and grace. Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life--something like his old life--exists beyond the airport. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return--not enough fuel to get him home--following the trail of the static-broken voice on the radio. But what he encounters and what he must face--in the people he meets, and in himself--is both better and worse than anything he could have hoped for.
Item Description:Downloadable audio file.
Unabridged.
Duration: 10:41:25.
Physical Description:1 sound file (10 hr., 41 min., 25 sec.) : digital.
Playing Time:10:41:25
Format:Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 153627 KB; MP3 file size: 300946 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780449013144
0449013146
Author Notes:PETER HELLER holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in both fiction and poetry. An award-winning adventure writer and longtime contributor to NPR, Heller is a contributing editor at Outside magazine, Men's Journal, and National Geographic Adventure, and a regular contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek . His previous books include Kook; The Whale Warriors; and Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo Gorge .

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