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Native air : a novel

ISBN: 1950584909
ISBN: 9781950584901
Physical Description: 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm print
Publisher: Brattleboro, Vermont : Green Writers Press, [2022]
Copyright: &copy;2022

Summary: The austere beauty and high exposure of mountain adventure provide the context and the measure for what it means to be alive for climbing partners Joe Holland and Pete Hunter-- until one of them isn't. When the book opens, it's the mid-80s. Joe Holland, the novel's narrator, is a climber and a seeker, but mostly he's Pete Hunter's shadow. The two meet in college and spend the next ten years living at the base of any rock that appears scalable, most of them near Yosemite and California's High Sierra. The joys and strains of their friendship comprise the novel's first half. In the second, the bare bones-- obsession, grief, love, and repair-- come into stark relief when Pete's grown son Will calls Joe back into climbing, into the past, and into breathless vitality.