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The Painter

Heller, Peter, 1959- author

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, A Division of Random House LLC
• Subject: Artists Fiction. / Abstract expressionism Fiction. / Ex-convicts Fiction. / Life change events Fiction. / Abstract expressionism. / Artists. / Ex-convicts. / Life change events.
• ISBN: 9780804170154, 0804170150

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3608.E454 P35 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE