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Sebastian Ritscher |
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THE MOUNTAIN STORY
A highly dramatic adventure story and revealing examination of family dynamics, written in beautiful, captivating prose.
The Mountain Story is told by Wolf Truly, who on his eighteenth birthday got lost with three women for five days in the mountain wilderness just outside Palm Springs. Now an adult and a father, Wolf is writing this account of what really happened on the mountain for his son Danny, who has just started college. Wolf realizes that he owes his son the truth, for reasons that become clear in a shocking revelation at the end of the novel.
Wolf had a rough youth, losing his mum when he was four, and being brought up by a dad who was more interested in the next conquest or bottle of scotch than in his son. Wolf has gone up the mountain to kill himself on the anniversary of the day his best friend, Byrd, had a tragic accident on the mountain, which had been the boys’ paradise and escape.
Wolf meets the three women on the cable car on the way up, and through wonderfully plotted misadventure, the women end up lost and stranded. They can see the desert city below but cannot find their way down to it from the forested cliffs. Wolf goes from wanting to kill himself to wanting all of them to survive, through five days of hope and loss and injury and hypothermia and incredible self-revelation on the part of all four. Only three of them come down the mountain alive.
Tense and gripping, The Mountain Story includes sex, death, deep emotion, and sacrifice.
Lori Lansens was a successful screenwriter before she burst onto the literary scene in 2002 with her first novel Rush Home Road. Published in eleven countries, Rush Home Road received rave reviews around the world. Her follow-up novel The Girls was an international success as well. Rights were sold in 13 territories and it featured as a book club pick by Richard & Judy in the UK, selling 300,000 copies. Her third novel The Wife’s Tale is in development as a film. Born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, Lori Lansens now makes her home in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.
Wolf had a rough youth, losing his mum when he was four, and being brought up by a dad who was more interested in the next conquest or bottle of scotch than in his son. Wolf has gone up the mountain to kill himself on the anniversary of the day his best friend, Byrd, had a tragic accident on the mountain, which had been the boys’ paradise and escape.
Wolf meets the three women on the cable car on the way up, and through wonderfully plotted misadventure, the women end up lost and stranded. They can see the desert city below but cannot find their way down to it from the forested cliffs. Wolf goes from wanting to kill himself to wanting all of them to survive, through five days of hope and loss and injury and hypothermia and incredible self-revelation on the part of all four. Only three of them come down the mountain alive.
Tense and gripping, The Mountain Story includes sex, death, deep emotion, and sacrifice.
Lori Lansens was a successful screenwriter before she burst onto the literary scene in 2002 with her first novel Rush Home Road. Published in eleven countries, Rush Home Road received rave reviews around the world. Her follow-up novel The Girls was an international success as well. Rights were sold in 13 territories and it featured as a book club pick by Richard & Judy in the UK, selling 300,000 copies. Her third novel The Wife’s Tale is in development as a film. Born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, Lori Lansens now makes her home in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.
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Published 2015-06-30 by Knopf Canada |
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Published 2015-06-30 by Knopf Canada |