The Dogs Of Winter

If Elmore Leonard and Cormac McCarthy had teamed up to write a surf novel, they might have produced The Dogs of Winter… Nunn does a masterful job of driving this… potboiler to its climax… By the time the sea foam clears, Nunn has added a modern-day adventure sport to the long list of literary confrontations between man and nature-a very twentieth-century version of a struggle once played out in tales of pioneering, exploration, and the harpooning of great white whales

The Village Voice

Terrific… And what a story it is: deftly, beautifully plotted… Nunn has written something truly powerful; to say this book is about surfing is to say The Sun Also Rises is about bullfighting. He has made the sport a metaphor for life lived at its edges, at its most intense. This is a fine, strong novel; if there’s justice in the world, it will give Nunn the reputation he deserves

Men's Journal

Like all great books, The Dogs of Winter operates on several levels of meaning-along with the page-turning suspense… Nunn trusts the tools of his trade above all else, and The Dogs of Winter is his triumph and our treasure, a mature, ambitious, highly readable masterpiece

Agenda

Stunning… extraordinary… compelling, violent, and very American… The Dogs of Winter has enough story to keep a reader on the edge of his seat for days on end… an amazing book

BookPage

Nunn’s secret in ruling this small domain is to combine surfing with something more deserving of a spun yarn. In The Dogs of Winter, spiritually possessed Indian lands just happen to border a legendary northern California surfing spot. But there are no endless summers or dances with wolves for Nunn; his creaky old surfers numb themselves on pills and beer, and his Indians litter from pickup trucks

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