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HTML:A highly acclaimed novelist now gives us a true epic: a love story that spans sixty years, generations?? worth of feuds, and secrets withheld and revealed.
The two principal stories at play in Wintering are bound together when the elderly, demented Harry Eide escapes his sickbed and vanishes into the forbidding, northernmost wilderness that surrounds the town of Gunflint, Minnesota??instantly changing the Eide family, and many other lives, forever. He??d done this once before, more than thirty years earlier in 1963, fleeing a crumbling marriage and bringing along Gustav, his eighteen-year-old son, pitching this audacious, potentially fatal scheme??winter already coming on, in these woods, on these waters??as a reenactment of the ancient voyageurs?? journeys of discovery.
It??s certainly something Gus has never forgotten, nor the Devil??s Maw of a river, a variety of beloved (possibly fantastical) maps, the ice floes and waterfalls (neither especially appealing from a canoe), a magnificent bear, the endless portages, a magical abandoned shack, Thanksgiving and Christmas improvised at the far end of the earth, the brutal cold and sheer beauty of it all. And men hunting other men.
Now??with his father pronounced dead??Gus relates their adventure in vivid detail to Berit Lovig, who??d spent much of her life waiting for Harry, her passionate conviction finally fulfilled over the last two decades. So, a middle-aged man rectifying his personal history, an aging lady wrestling with her own, and with the entire saga of a town and region they??d helped to form and were in turn formed… (plus d'informations)
Using parallel timelines, Geye tells a story of a small-town family on Minnesota's North Shore. In the present-day, Gus' elderly father Harry has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and Gus and Harry's lady friend Berit console themselves and reflect by sharing stories from the past. Gus reveals for the first time what happened the year he was eighteen, when he and Harry took a late-autumn canoeing journey into the Boundary Waters.
I really liked the northern Minnesota feel of this book, and I'm grateful it didn't go overboard with Minnesotaness. Although I'm from the Twin Cities, I've spent enough time on the North Shore that the community felt welcome and familiar. This book is the second in a series, but I read it without having read the first. It isn't necessary to read them in order, but the first work seems to provide some history on a few of the characters, which might help with keeping names and generations straight. I enjoyed Geye's writing, and I found the mystery within the story well done. Recommended. ( )
Initially, I found this novel intriguing. It is the story of journeys, getting list and found, both literal and metaphorical. Just past the ha lfway mark I asked myself what the heck was the point, and never really found out. I think the story meandered too much and just got permanently lost. ( )
I decided to read this book because it won the Minnesota Book Awards Finalist (Novel & Short Story, 2017) and found it was set in Northeast Minnesota, Gunflint trail area which is now the boundary waters but the story covers the time period of the late 1800's to 1990s. It is an adventure, a love story, a feud, and a story of secrets. The main story occurs in 1963 when Harry Eide and his 18 year son Gustav flee trouble and go into the borderland "wintering" like the voyageurs would have done in early times. I really enjoyed this book because it is a well told story but it also is set in land that is familiar to me as I lived on the opposite side of the boundary waters area and I like stories of nature and the outdoors. The story is slowly told and there is a great deal of tension in the telling as slowly little bits of the secrets are revealed. Rating 4.75 ( )
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The country between Lake Superior and the Lake of the Woods is, like the whole watershed between Hudson's Bay and the Valley of the St. Lawrence, a rugged assemblage of hills, with lakes, rivers, and morasses, of all sizes and shapes, in their intervals. It is, in fact, a drowned land, whose waters have assumed their permanent features by a balance of receipt and discharge.
They all communicate practically with each other, either by water or by portage, so that the traveller may reach the Lake of the Woods by many routes, differing only in danger, labour, and directness. —JOHN JEREMIAH BIGSBY
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For my boys, Finn and Cormac
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Our winters are faithful and unfailing and we take what they bring, but this season has tested even the most devout among us.
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HTML:A highly acclaimed novelist now gives us a true epic: a love story that spans sixty years, generations?? worth of feuds, and secrets withheld and revealed.
The two principal stories at play in Wintering are bound together when the elderly, demented Harry Eide escapes his sickbed and vanishes into the forbidding, northernmost wilderness that surrounds the town of Gunflint, Minnesota??instantly changing the Eide family, and many other lives, forever. He??d done this once before, more than thirty years earlier in 1963, fleeing a crumbling marriage and bringing along Gustav, his eighteen-year-old son, pitching this audacious, potentially fatal scheme??winter already coming on, in these woods, on these waters??as a reenactment of the ancient voyageurs?? journeys of discovery.
It??s certainly something Gus has never forgotten, nor the Devil??s Maw of a river, a variety of beloved (possibly fantastical) maps, the ice floes and waterfalls (neither especially appealing from a canoe), a magnificent bear, the endless portages, a magical abandoned shack, Thanksgiving and Christmas improvised at the far end of the earth, the brutal cold and sheer beauty of it all. And men hunting other men.
Now??with his father pronounced dead??Gus relates their adventure in vivid detail to Berit Lovig, who??d spent much of her life waiting for Harry, her passionate conviction finally fulfilled over the last two decades. So, a middle-aged man rectifying his personal history, an aging lady wrestling with her own, and with the entire saga of a town and region they??d helped to form and were in turn formed
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I really liked the northern Minnesota feel of this book, and I'm grateful it didn't go overboard with Minnesotaness. Although I'm from the Twin Cities, I've spent enough time on the North Shore that the community felt welcome and familiar. This book is the second in a series, but I read it without having read the first. It isn't necessary to read them in order, but the first work seems to provide some history on a few of the characters, which might help with keeping names and generations straight. I enjoyed Geye's writing, and I found the mystery within the story well done. Recommended. (