The Hunter - Softcover

Leigh, Julia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142000027 ISBN 13: 9780142000021

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2001

Synopsis

Now a major motion picture starring William Dafoe

A man identified only as "M" is hired by a multinational biotech company to locate and hunt down the last known Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine. Beginning at a remote house on the fringe of a vast wilderness, M embarks on a fateful course deep into the forest and an ancient world of silence and stillness. The Hunter is a haunting adventure tale of obsession and redemption, worthy of Conrad or Melville, where a business proposition takes on mythic aspects, as the quest for an extinct animal becomes a search not for ultimate profit but for the essence of life that technology has all but crushed.

"Impressive."--The New York Times Book Review

"Strong and Hypnotic."-- Don DeLillo

"[Leigh's] narration is as clear-eyed and cold-blooded as her hero."--The New Yorker

"A memorable debut, one full of many rewards and a subtle, precise beauty."--San Francisco Chronicle

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Review:

"Strong and Hypnotic."
-- Don DeLillo

"Impressive."

"[Leigh's] narration is as clear-eyed and cold-blooded as her hero."

"A memorable debut, one full of many rewards and a subtle, precise beauty."

Praise for DISQUIET: "Julia Leigh is a sorceress. Her deft prose casts a spell of serene control while the earth quakes underfoot."
-- Toni Morrison

Synopsis:

Wehn the thylacine, the legendary Tasmanian tiger, long thought extinct, is spotted in the vast wilderness of Tasmania, M, a hunter whose task is to find the creature for a multinational biotech company, embarks on fateful and obsessive search for the mythic animal.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0142000027
• ISBN 13: 9780142000021
• Binding: Paperback