Wild Animus

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In the summer of 1969, a disillusiohed Berkeley graduate leaves behind a world oipioiest^/^t., and riots to follow a wild, inner calling. Sam Altman is an intense young man with an ^ aiiimal energy whose unleashed and increasingly unhinged imagination takes hiin firS to"^' Seattle and then farther north, to the remote Alaskan wilderness. , .
Sam has fallen deeply in love with the mysterious and powerful Lindy, a young woman r who understands his quest, and who wiU do anything to help him realize it—no matter^ how bizarre or dangerous. On the unforgiving ridges of Mt. Wrangell, alone «With'his. • •. reckless ideas and a driving need to uncover his innermost self, Sam, who has renamed himself Ransom, gradually transforms himself into a ram—^prey to a pack of strangely'' famiUar wolves.
The mad pursuit leads from the wilds to civilization and back again. And when Sam and Lindy return to brave the perilous mountain together, the truth behind his imagined... Tovább

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Fiction ^ d


In the summer of 1969, a disillusiohed Berkeley graduate leaves behind a world oipioiest^/^t., and riots to follow a wild, inner calling. Sam Altman is an intense young man with an ^ aiiimal energy whose unleashed and increasingly unhinged imagination takes hiin firS to"^' Seattle and then farther north, to the remote Alaskan wilderness. , .
Sam has fallen deeply in love with the mysterious and powerful Lindy, a young woman r who understands his quest, and who wiU do anything to help him realize it—no matter^ how bizarre or dangerous. On the unforgiving ridges of Mt. Wrangell, alone «With'his. • •. reckless ideas and a driving need to uncover his innermost self, Sam, who has renamed himself Ransom, gradually transforms himself into a ram—^prey to a pack of strangely'' famiUar wolves.
The mad pursuit leads from the wilds to civilization and back again. And when Sam and Lindy return to brave the perilous mountain together, the truth behind his imagined transformation emerges. What they discover in those frozen heights threatens their love as well as their sanity and their lives.
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Wild Animus is a search for the primordial, a test of human foundations, and a journey to the breaking point. This is a story of love and sacrifice, of obsession, of finding the Umits of the heart and going one step farther.
I^B^^^^^^HH Rich Shapero grew up in California and headed north as soon as he could scrape ^^B the fare together. Captivated by the staggering beauty of the Alaskan wilderness, and the dare, of its dangerous side, his explorations have taken the form of meditations on transcendence. For Shapero, the primeval landscape tests not SS^f^fy^ hi""™ endurance, but the boundaries of the human spirit. Whether
circumnavigating Chichagof Island by sailboat, dog sledding the Arctic, or traversing 400 miles of mountainous terrain solo—as he did while writing Wild Animus—Shapero's focus has been on the exploration within. The real goal, he maintains, is a fresh discovery of ourselves.
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• PUBLICATION DATE: MAY 2004
• 328 pages
• 6 1/4" X 9 1/4"
¦ ISBN 0-9718801-0-7
¦ Hardcover
¦ USA 22,00 / CAN 31.00
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