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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780671793340 ISBN: 0671793349 Label: Scribner Manufacturer: Scribner Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: March 01, 1998 Publisher: Scribner Studio: Scribner Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 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 lucks into 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Among the few (yeah how cliche is that? write a review about it) good American authorsI'm a bit irritated after reading some folks' reviews of this great Nunn tale. Just like any experienced police officer will point out the ridiculous elements in a show like Law and Order or CSI, Kem Nunn is so privileged to have non-professional surfers bash his novel because it isn't up to code with an imaginary bible of surfing terminology or formatting. Readers need to understand that Kem Nunn is a NOVELIST, not a professional surfer. I'm sure if there were any Vikings around today, they would ... Read More Rating:  - "Dogs of Winter" a Satisfying Mix of Surf, Mystery, Adventure and MoralityAfter reading Kem Nunn's "Tapping the Source," I wanted more. "Dogs of Winter" was my next choice. This is an even more ambitious and atmospheric novel with an eclectic cast of characters. Legendary surfer, Drew Harmon, recruits fellow surfer, Robbie Jones, and "washed up" surf photographer, Jack Fletcher, to shoot video of the surfers conquering "Heart Attacks," a mysterious spot somewhere on the Pacific Northwest coast. Drew Harmon is a selfish loose cannon, intentionally oblivious to the ... Read More Rating: - Another great Kem Nunn novelAnother great surfing novel by Kem Nunn. If you enjoyed "Tapping The Source", this one is a must read! Rating:  - Very CaptivatingI truly enjoyed the book. Highly recommended to keep you company on those surf trips that take you to cold parts of the world. Rating:  - The Dogs of Writing...I didn't care for this book. As a cautionary example, please consider the following sentence: "Though Fletcher supposed it was their destination they had come to, for it was clear they had arrived at land's end and he watched with some satisfaction these mists thrown up by the sea, swirling as they passed, achieving in many cases forms and shapes that only poetry, or perhaps his girl at his side, might have named." Might this be the very definition of purple prose? If the sentence doesn't offend, ... Read More 
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