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Heart Attacks is California’s last secret spot—the premier mysto surf haunt, the stuff of rumor and legend. The rumors say you must cross Indian land to get there. They tell of hostile locals and shark-infested waters where waves in excess of thirty feet break a mile from shore. For down-and-out photographer Jack Fletcher, the chance to shoot these waves in the company of surfing legend Drew Harmon offers the promise of new beginnings. But Drew is not alone in the northern reaches of the state. His young wife, Kendra, lives there with him. Obsessed with the unsolved murder of a local girl, Kendra has embarked upon a quest of her own, a search for truth—however dark that truth may prove to be.
The Dogs of Winter is a portrait of two men and an appealing yet troubled young woman set against an unforgettable background of stark and violent beauty.
- Sales Rank: #436981 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-09-17
- Released on: 2013-09-17
- Format: Kindle eBook
Amazon.com Review
Kem Nunn's earlier surfing novel Tapping the Source was nominated for an American Book Award. In The Dogs of Winter, he draws again on the eternal legends and tall tales of surfers. Jack Fletcher is a pill-popping photographer on the skids who lucks into the assignment of photographing the aging surfing legend Drew Harmon and two young pros at the Heart Attacks in Northern California--an appropriately difficult-to-reach and shark-infested "mysto spot" reputed to have 30-foot waves. Not all dangers lurk in the ocean, however. The local Indians are unfriendly to outsiders and to each other; Harmon's young wife is obsessed with Indian witchcraft and a murdered local girl; and Harmon cloaks his own demons in laconic surfer-deity mystique. The hapless Fletcher and a local tribal council worker named Travis McCade desperately try to avert the curl of disaster that builds and breaks in this heavily atmospheric novel.
From Publishers Weekly
"Surfers loved their stories. Big waves and outlaws. Eccentrics who had managed somehow to beat the system, to stay in the life when others moved inland and paid taxes." No one knows this better than Nunn (Pomona Queen), who, after 13 years, returns to the California surfing setting of his acclaimed first novel, Tapping the Source. Despite recent screw-ups, past-his-prime surfing photographer Fletcher is hired by a glossy surfing magazine to shoot aging master Drew Harmon and a couple of hot-shot tyros at a legendary Northern California beach dubbed Heart Attacks. The assignment is a bonehead idea from the start. Harmon?a semi-recluse who lives on an Indian reservation and pitched the photo shoot for unknown reasons?has no idea where Heart Attacks actually is. He's not entirely sane, in fact, and neither is his wife, a working witch. Also, the residents of the reservation are eager for confrontation, and murderously outsized cold-water waves (known to surfers as "dogs of winter") pound the shoreline. The novel begins to build a head of steam as an examination of how outsiders can wreak havoc on a small community. The tone changes dramatically when the surfers hit the road and are hunted by a band of Native Americans who've burnt down Harmon's home and kidnapped his wife. But this is no chase-the-gun-down thriller, and before you can say, "endless summer," the plot veers off in an even more sinister direction. Chapters alternate in perspective between those of Fletcher, Harmon's wife and a mixed-race official from the tribal council who bears the unlikely name of Travis McCade. It's hard to understand McCade's purpose in the novel since, structurally speaking, all he does is provide a sane foil for Harmon and fall for the man's wife. Fletcher serves the same functions, and more naturally. Even so, the story rides high, sped by prose as crisp as a breaking wave, as Nunn, a skilled author, once again writes deeply about a subject he knows and loves. Paperback rights to Washington Square Press; author tour.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
A few years back, one of the big stories in the surfing world was the discovery of a "secret spot" in Northern California with monster waves that rivaled those of Hawaii's Waimea Bay. Nunn, author of Tapping the Source (1984), one of the few classics of surfing fiction, explores the premise of an undiscovered surfing paradise in this ambitious but poorly focused novel. Jack Fletcher, an aging sports photographer hooked on pain pills, accompanies legendary longboard master Drew Harmon and two pierced and tattooed younger pros on an expedition to document a fabled spot known as Heart Attacks near the Oregon border. For the older men, this is a final opportunity to cash in on a sport that has nearly ruined their lives. Essentially a West Coast version of James Dickey's Deliverance (1970), the book has as its main attraction a colorful supporting cast of rural weirdos, New Agers, and substance abusers. For larger collections of California fiction.?Edward B. St. John, Loyola Law Sch., Los Angeles
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
No hope save hope
By peter wild
This is not the kind of book I would normally pick up. The title is not so great. "Dogs of Winter" sounds like a straight-to-video action flick starring Charlie Sheen.
Then you read the back cover copy.
It's about a mystical cove in California. A place surfers talk about in hushed tones. The Devil's Hoof, home to the last great wave. Nobody has ever found it, but many have searched in vain. Until now. When I read that, I thought: okay - it's a surfer version of that over-rated Alex Garland book, "The Beach".
A group made up of two young surfers, a grizzled old photographer, a legendary surfer and a young kid find the cove and decide to make something of it, which riles the local Indian population somewhat. When the kid vanishes beneath one of the great waves, the local Indian population decide to retaliate: the legendary surfer's half-mad wife is abducted and the young surfer, the old photographer and the legendary surfer disappear into the woods roundabout. At which point, it's a case of Alex Garland's "The Beach" meets - what? "Straw Dogs"? "Deliverance"?
I'll tell you. When I started reading I thought: this is a book without surprises.
I only started reading because of a conversation with a friend. We were talking about end-of-year polls, how you can often hear about books and music that passed you by, how you can often pick up a treat that otherwise you might have missed. He told me that he spotted "Dogs of Winter" in one such poll two or more years ago. He told me I should read it and - you know, you feel kind of obligated after that, right?
Recommendation notwithstanding, I approached this book like I'd approach a snake with it's back up.I'll tell you - I'll hold my hands up - I was wrong. This is not in the least like you expect it to be.
The thread of the novel primarily winds itself about three people - Fletcher (the grizzled old photographer I told you about), Kendra (the half-mad wife of the legendary surfer) and a local police guy / mediator called Travis. All of whom are in some way flawed. Fletcher used to be a great photographer but now he is relegated to weddings and drinking in the morning. Kendra has a history of insanity and worries about being her father's daughter, her father being the kind of guy who beat his wife and worked his way in and out of one institution or another. Travis used to be a hell-raiser, and has a reputation as a womaniser, but really he is a failure: two failed marriages and a kid he doesn't really know. When Travis stands out by the sea in the fog with his father, you see two versions of the same old goat.
Kem Nunn frustrates your expectations through deft deflection for the most part. Action occurs off camera. You chance upon the big plot turns after the fact - the reader is wandering about in the woods with all these other people, and you have as much chance as they do to converge upon what happens next. The convergences are not the most important parts of the story.
The weight of the book lies in the spaces between what happened before and what happens next, the still moments as characters watch the sky and regret choices (choices that shaped lives, choices that shaped the action over the previous pages).
"Dogs in Winter" is not a B-movie, straight-to-video action flick. "Dogs in Winter" is about age and the baggage you accumulate as you make your way from Point A to Point B. Towards the end of the book, Travis says:
"A man should have something . . . some thread to the earth, lest he lose even the ground beneath his feet."
That's what all of these people are looking for. (I suppose you'd call it sense: that attempt to articulate and make sense of the larger things - like the effect of the sea upon the lives of those who live by the coast - even though the larger things often refuse articulation.)
Fletcher sums this up:
"It was his hope that these things were so ordered, though there was little foundation for this hope save hope itself."
The people in the book (Hell, the people reading the book) have hopes - frustrated or otherwise - and reading that acts like a congress, part sweet part sour. It's not the kind of book that would normally have caught my eye. Sometimes it's good to know people, good to have books (and ideas and anything else) thrust into your hand, sometimes it's good to be told what to do, because otherwise you'd miss out on the things that might otherwise have passed you by.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
A book about...surfers?!
By Richard A. Tucker
I read Kem Nunn's previous novel "Tapping the Source" and thoroughly enjoyed it. It wasn't "my kind of novel" but I still scarfed that book down. It also gave me a nice appreciation for the surfing mentality. I found "The Dogs of Winter" many years later and gave it a try. Kem's ability to draw me into the novel is disturbing but admirable. I can't begin to understand the motivations of the characters in the beginning, but as I continue to be drawn into the novel and its characters I find that their stories are not so different from those of real people I know. I relate to the characters on a gut level which tosses aside any differences I have with them. Before long I'm eager to see what happens regardless of the fundamental lack of shared philosophy, lifestyle or motives. Too top off the good characterization Kem Nunn has a real understanding of the environment he's writing about. From the knowledge of surfers and their mindset to the region and the climate they challenge, I really feel like I'm walking the shores of the Northern California Pacific coast. It's a scary place with its extremes in weather but also full of beautiful detail and wonder. This guy can cook. I've never had a big interest in surfing or surfers, however, just like my experience with his previous novel, by the end of this book I'm almost ready to jump on a board to try my hand in the numbingly cold waters of the north Pacific. Luckily the sharks and the huge, deep Pacific waves are there keep me out of the water. Did I mention that I cramp easily?
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
"Dogs of Winter" a Satisfying Mix of Surf, Mystery, Adventure and Morality
By Gary
After reading Kem Nunn's "Tapping the Source," I wanted more. "Dogs of Winter" was my next choice. This is an even more ambitious and atmospheric novel with an eclectic cast of characters. Legendary surfer, Drew Harmon, recruits fellow surfer, Robbie Jones, and "washed up" surf photographer, Jack Fletcher, to shoot video of the surfers conquering "Heart Attacks," a mysterious spot somewhere on the Pacific Northwest coast.
Drew Harmon is a selfish loose cannon, intentionally oblivious to the delicate territorial rules of the Native Americans in the wilderness the three must hike to get to Heart Attacks. Drew is driven to the point of spooking Robbie Jones, carefree and immature, along for the adventure, and Jack Fletcher. Fletcher, excited about trying to erase the low point of his photography career with new surfing video, represents the conscience of the trio as their adventure turns into a fight for their lives when their presence upsets the balance of life among the tribes in the wilderness.
Generally, the Native Americans are not portrayed in a flattering way in this book. I don't know the truth, but trust that Nunn did his research. Travis McCade is a Native American lawman, who tries to maintain the peace enough to keep the federal government out of the affairs of the tribes. Just as Jack Fletcher is the moral conscience of the surfers, Travis McCade is the conscience of the Native Americans, trying to keep the events unfolding before him from slipping into uncontrollable chaos.
Nunn, as with "Tapping the Source," has a well-crafted story to tell and tells it in page-turning style, from the surf sequences, the battle with the Native Americans who resent the surfers' intrusion, and the ominous build-up to Drew Harmon's true motivations and dark secret.
Unfortunately, Nunn's writing style is schizophrenic. At times, it is concise and dramatic; at other times, it is wordy, convoluted, and a chore to read. As I read the book, a pattern seemed to develop: his dialogue is excellent, and description of action sequences are hard-hitting and to the point. All narrative in between becomes heavy, slow, and burdensome to read. I looked for purpose in almost interminable sentences, and usually found none. Not being able to believe that Nunn did not have purpose to his prose style, I concede that some of the surfing sequences benefitted from longer sentences to create the flow of an unfolding wave and the process of riding it. Inexplicable use of passive voice dragged a lot of the narrative down. I found myself wanting to turn the page to see what happens next, but dreading being confronted with ponderous prose. Reading sometimes seemed as hard as the surfers' arduous journey through the wilderness and coastline. (I'm sure that wasn't Nunn's intent.) If it weren't for the strong story, I may have put this book down.
I will probably seek out more of Kem Nunn's work, and hope that the writing is more consistent and concise. I guess "Tapping the Source" is a tough act to follow. But, in general, "Dogs of Winter" was a good follow-up for me. The story takes place in a wider landscape that is at once beautiful and terrifying, and provided more insight into the surf experience.
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