The Hunter
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781568581699 (1568581696)
Publish date: October 2nd 2000
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
A classic. Beautifully written, so different, and so much darker than the movie. Two quotes to illustrate the beauty of the author's prose:"Dark here comes quickly. He undresses and slips into his silky cold sleeping bag. Up above, the clouds mask the stars and the moon alone glows like a strange pe...
Creepy. I liked it, tho not as much as Disquiet.
Every man is an island. It's a dog-eat-dog world. Can you step into the same river twice? If you consider these things and throw in a bit of Bear Grylls then you have the gist of the book. From about mid-way the film and the book part company, if my memory serves me correctly.
M. (aka David Martin, for this trip at least) is being sent on a hunt of a nearly extinct, borderline mythical, creature, the thylacine (a Tasmanian tiger). He is, above all things, a hunter. M is solitary, efficient, and ruthless; lacking the social skills to interact with his kind with ease. Th...
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