That in extreme situations, little things like compatibility don’t matter and new family bonds are forged. The fact that Bangley is such an inaccessible character to start with, makes it all the more touching when the emotion slips through. Jasper is truly man’s best friend in this case. The characters of Hig and Bangley are also joined by Jasper the dog, and it is the relationship between man and dog that starts pulling at the heart-strings. They bred dogs for everything else, even diving for fish, why didn’t they breed them to live longer, to live as long as a man? So even the lack of speech marks work for me (and usually I find this difficult). When living is isolation, is there need for formal grammar? It also mimics the train of thought of someone by themselves, every so often blurring into speech, when Hig isn’t even aware that he is talking out loud. Yet beyond all that appeared a book I fell in love with. Their world is pretty bleak and their existence consists of killing people that come too close and making sure they have food to eat. Written by a specialist adventure writer, one character loves his fishing and his plane the other is a gun-toting, all American male. The prose borders on poetry in places, with short, incomplete sentences. The speech is without speech marks and mostly unattributed. If I had read any reviews of The Dog Stars in advance, I probably would have run away from this book. I have four songs on the CD rigged to the amp and the speakers: they are titled Then I would have swooped, cut the engine, played the tape.
Had there been wanderers it would have fucked up everything, delayed our hunt. They form an unlikely alliance Hig with his plane for surveillance and Bangley with his guns. His only neighbour is Bangley, a man with a passion for firearms and no qualm about killing. After the flu that killed his wife went on to take the lives of 99.9% of America, he lives with his dog in an abandoned airport.
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