Wintering Audiobook

Quotes

• “The last time I read a literary thriller so profound Cormac McCarthy’s name was on its spine. But Peter Geye is his own man and Wintering is as unique and menacingly beautiful as its Minnesota borderlands setting.”

  — Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

• “An elegant, quietly profound, and harrowing novel. I loved this book.”

  — Emily St. John Mandel, New York Times bestselling author

• “A page-turning cross between Jack London’s naturalism and Jim Harrison’s poetic symbolism…[Stitches] together two frequently dissociated strands in American literature: its dramas of beset manhood and its domestic chronicles…Wintering gives us both, vividly imagining an outward bound journey that eventually brings us home to a fuller understanding of ourselves.”

  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

• “Geye’s powerful third outing journeys to the frozen places in the American landscape and the human heart…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

• “Beautifully written [and] supported by immaculately conceived characters [and] Geye’s instinctive sense of narrative movement…The relatively small and enclosed community is Geye’s perfect laboratory for exploring human nature.”

  — Booklist

• “There’s no greater literary pleasure than watching a master emerge. I’ve witnessed Peter Geye grow into that distinction for coming on two decades now. All I can say is Wintering proves his finest, most powerful work yet.”

  — Joseph Boyden, award-winning author of Three Day Road

• “Geye’s assured narrative gradually unfolds a Jack London-like tale of survival blended with a Richard Russo-like picture of small-town intrigue…Geye dips into history with ease and comes out with a story as contemporary as anything flashing across our screens today. Wintering is a novel for the ages.”

  — Shelf Awareness

• “Peter Geye’s third novel is a work of great power and primal beauty, an epic literary journey into the forbidding wilds of Northern Minnesota. Geye is a masterful writer whose elegiac prose captures both the holiness and brutality of nature. Wintering is a stunning book, one that takes hold of the reader from the first haunting line and never lets go.”

  — Amy Greene, bestselling author of Bloodroot

• “In starkly elegant prose that matches neatly the deep northern landscape in which it’s set, Wintering is a vivid portrait of fathers and sons, generational battles of love and exhaustion, forgiveness and mystery. The bonds crack, shimmer, and hold, like ice, like granite ledges. Peter Geye writes with a nigh-mythic force. An extraordinary novel.”

  — Jeffrey Lent, author of A Peculiar Grace

• “In one beautifully etched sentence after another, Peter Geye’s Wintering explores the remote wilderness of Minnesota, and the even more remote and mysterious wilderness of family history. I found myself lost inside it, in all the best ways a reader can be lost.”

  — Alix Ohlin, author of Inside

• “Geye has chosen a complex narrative strategy, one that mirrors the complexity of the relationships he dramatizes…Reminiscent of Jack London’s ‘To Build a Fire’ and Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, Geye’s narrative takes us deep into both human and natural wilderness.”

  — Kirkus Reviews