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Dogs of Winter (Paperback)

by Kem Nunn (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Product details

  • Paperback: 370 pages
  • Publisher: No Exit Press; First Printing edition (26 Oct 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1901982351
  • ISBN-13: 978-1901982350
  • Product Dimensions: 18.6 x 12.6 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 145,791 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

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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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Surfing into the Heart of Darkness., 21 Feb 2001
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This review is from: The Dogs of Winter (Hardcover)
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 into the darker side of the human psyche. Forget about teenybopper surf literature - the author has taken a mature insight to his surfing experience and carved out a dark, disturbing tale of self destruction and lost youth. A gripping thriller that will definitely appeal to surfers (as well as the less enlighted).
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4.0 out of 5 stars Like 'Big Wednesday' it has that sense of surfing mystisism, 3 April 2000
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This review is from: The Dogs of Winter (Hardcover)
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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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Surfers! Don't be put off be the dodgy title!, 25 Oct 1999
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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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