Jack Fletcher, a former hot-shot surf photographer but now fallen on hard times, suddenly gets a call from the surf magazine he worked for in his glory days. He can't believe his luck when he's assigned to photograph legendary surfer Drew Harmon surfing the equally legendary reef known as "Heart Attacks". With two lackeys in tow, Fletcher heads off to the wilderness of Northern California, the Indian territory where Harmon now lives with his half-mad wife Kendra, who roams the woods at night wearing the clothes of a murdered girl. This is not what Jack expected, and things get much worse.
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Kem Nunn's earlier surfing novel Tapping the Source was nominated for an American Book Award. In The Dogs of Winter, he draws again on the eternal legends and tall tales of surfers. Jack Fletcher is a pill-popping photographer on the skids who is lucky to get the assignment of photographing the aging surfing legend Drew Harmon and two young pros at the Heart Attacks in Northern California--an appropriately difficult-to-reach and shark-infested "mysto spot" reputed to have 30-foot waves. Not all dangers lurk in the ocean, however. The local Indians are unfriendly to outsiders and to each other; Harmon's young wife is obsessed with Indian witchcraft and a murdered local girl; and Harmon cloaks his own demons in laconic surfer-deity mystique. The hapless Fletcher and a local tribal council worker named Travis McCade desperately try to avert the curl of disaster that builds and breaks in this heavily atmospheric novel. --Amazon.com
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"Nunn's churning prose picks you up like a thirty-foot wave and gives you one helluva ride to the beach...."[The Dogs of Winter]" is the greatest novel ever written about surfing."
-- Peter Plagens, "Newsweek"
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The book is far from being a cheesy surf tale, although it does incorporate some of the cliched characters which at some point or another have featured in surfing history. I have been reluctant to recommend to non surfers, but on second reading and reviews from friends....I strongly suggest having a read.
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This is a gnarly book and well written from a surf perspective. Its set in a part of California that i've never seen.....wild coastal dropout zone. If you ever wanted to know what happened to champion surfers and mag.photographers after they have peaked look at this as an example. This Kem Nunn has a wicked view on the 3 s's that'll be surf sex and spiritual forces....though this is not as warped as his other book.
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This novel is a must read for every surfer who has taken a surf trip in search of their personal limits. It will remind you that you never know your limits until they are pushed, whether personal, emotional or physical. Kem Nunn expertly conveys the "feeling" of pushing your limits in search of them. During the summertime, when there is not a wave in the ocean, this book will get you stoked for the cold, hard winter surf.
Ps. Please e-mail me if you have a copy of Tapping the Source you would like to sell or loan.
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Kem Nunn is one of the great story tellers of his age. His plots and characters manage to capture the angst of our times: no one wins, everyone ends up more of less damaged, but... Read more
Published 14 months ago by B. Lowe
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happy with my purchase
have nt read it yet but have read another Kem nunn novel which was very good
Published on 31 Aug 2010 by S. J. Baxter
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Northern California Travelog
I can attest to the accuracy of Nunn's portrait of this area of Northern California. The book is well written and exciting, but the picture of people and place of coastal Northern... Read more
Published on 3 July 2008 by Charley
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A superb book!
This is a really superb book: as well is being a terrific can't-put-it-down thriller, it's poetic, dark, informative and just a great read. Highly recommended.
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Surfing into the Heart of Darkness.
Definitely worth a squizz. I'm reading this book for the second time and i still can't put it down. A fast paced, exhilarating ride thru the Northern Californian wilderness and... Read more
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