Media Center: ‘Wintering’ by Peter Geye

Media Center: ‘Wintering’ by Peter Geye

WHO: Peter Geye

WHAT: WINTERING, a novel

WHEN: Published by Knopf June 8, 2016

WHERE: The author was born and raised in Minneapolis.

WHY: “Powerful.
“One November, the elderly Harry Eide, who is suffering from dementia, vanishes into the unforgiving backcountry surrounding his home in the tiny Minnesota town of Gunflint. When his son, Gus, comes to tell Harry’s longtime love, Berit Lovig, the news, Gus also begins recounting another defining trip Harry took into the wilderness three decades earlier.
“In fall 1963, Harry persuaded then-18-year-old Gus to postpone college and join him on a lengthy two-man journey north into the maze of waterways at the Canadian border, where they planned to winter over like the ‘voyageurs of yore.’ By the time the first snow fell, Gus had come to understand that the maps Harry had brought were useless and that a showdown with Charlie Aas, Gunflint’s corrupt mayor and Harry’s longtime nemesis, might be dead ahead. As Gus recalls his tale, Berit looks back to her own past, most notably with Rebekah Grimm, a Gunflint icon whose history links her to the Eides.
“Capturing the strength and mystery of characters who seem inextricable from the landscape, Geye’s novel is an unsentimental testament to the healing that’s possible when we confront our bleakest places.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Geye’s narrative takes us deep into both human and natural wilderness.”
—KIRKUS REVIEWS

“Beautifully writtern.
Lush details of camping and trekking and living rugged in the woods…immaculately conceived characters…as well as Geye’s instinctive sense of narrative movement.”
—Brad Hooper, BOOKLIST

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Knopf. 300 pages. $26.95 ISBN 978-1-101-94646-6


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