![]() ![]() It's not only a gripping tale of classic revenge, but it's also a story of survival literally against all odds and about the extent that one man's determination can go. ![]() The story is sometimes hard to believe I mean damn the dude's throat was nearly severed and he couldn't walk! And with Michael Punke's well-conceived embellishments and dramatics, the story really rises to an even higher level of extraordinary. I'd never heard of the story of Hugh Glass and I'm totally in awe of how much of a badass he was. It's almost a sure thing that Glass will croak, so he doesn't take it personally when his colleagues abandon him, but when they steal his beloved knife and rifle, AND his flint and steel? Now that's totally unforgivable! Against all odds, Glass crawls across hundreds of miles of treacherous countryside to bring retribution to those that wronged him. Things go south fast when he gets ripped apart by a grizzly bear while hunting. The book is based on the famous true story of Hugh Glass, the frontiersman working as a trapper for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company in 1823 gathering beaver pelts along the Missouri River. Little things like blankets, lighters, automatic rifles, and those two words that kept running through my mind while reading: ANTI. While reading this exciting western adventure, I was constantly reminded of how many things we take for granted today. ![]() Raw and powerful, Punke’s is a lean, strident prose, bursting out of its 272 pages with a purpose akin to protagonist Hugh Glass’s resolute will to survive and avenge his loss. Yet, Punke rises above a formulaic narrative by adding tragi-comic scenes and backstory histories to add depth and humanity to an already good story. The western men who thrived in this era were as physically tough and resilient as the natives and it is this primal, atavistic element that is at the heart of his writing. The western plains in the early 1800s were a true wilderness, at least two generations before “the west was won”. Punke has selected as his subject an early western tale, closer in time to Natty Bumpo than to Wyatt Earp. What he does have in generous supply is a will to survive and a murderous drive to pour a can of vengeful whoopass on the men who abandoned him. ![]() His compatriots, already behind schedule and in danger from a rogue branch of a native American tribe, leave two trappers behind to bury Glass when he finally dies.īut things don’t wind up as tidy as expected and Glass finds himself still alive but alone in the western wilderness without his gun, knife, or implements of survival. In the summer of 1823, fur trapper Hugh Glass, an experienced frontiersman, lowers his guard for a moment and in true Jack London fashion, nature demonstrates how unforgiving a mistake can be, as Glass is viciously mauled by a grizzly bear. The novel that inspired the epic new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy.Įqual parts Larry McMurtry and Jack London with a nod to Cormac McCarthy, writer Michael Punke delivers a riveting tale of survival and revenge. The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution. With shocking grit and determination, he sets out on a three-thousand-mile journey across the harsh American frontier, to seek revenge on the men who betrayed him. But, fearing an imminent attack, they abandon Glass, stripping him of his prized rifle and hatchet.Īs Glass watches the men flee, he is driven to survive by one all-consuming desire: revenge. Two men from the company are ordered to remain with him until his inevitable death. Hugh Glass is one of the most respected men in the company, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker.But when a scouting mission puts Glass face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. The trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. ![]()
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