Ebook {Epub PDF} The Revenant by Michael Punke

 · horrific wounds. In Michael Punke?s hauntingly spare and gripping prose, THE REVENANT is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution. Discussion Guide 1. While Michael Punke was reading a book about the American West, he discovered a snippet about Hugh Glass.  · “The makings of a western classic, Michael Punke's novel The Revenant provides muscle and sinew to the vengeful and epic tale of mountain man, Hugh Glass that even a sow Grizzly couldn't rend asunder.” —Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire novels “A superb revenge story Punke has added considerably to our understanding of human endurance and of the men who .  · The Revenant (which is soon to be a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio) gives us a vivid portrait of brutal men, living in a brutal time, in a brutal land. Some sweetness is provided in the character of a teenaged boy, a fictionalized Jim Bridger, one of the best known mountain explorers of that time. Michael Punke’s visceral prose feels.

horrific wounds. In Michael Punke?s hauntingly spare and gripping prose, THE REVENANT is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution. Discussion Guide 1. While Michael Punke was reading a book about the American West, he discovered a snippet about Hugh Glass. Editorial Reviews. The makings of a western classic, Michael Punke's novel The Revenant provides muscle and sinew to the vengeful and epic tale of mountain man, Hugh Glass that even a sow Grizzly couldn't rend asunder." —Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire novels "A superb revenge story Punke has added considerably to our understanding of human endurance and of the men who. Michael Punke is a writer, novelist, professor, policy analyst, policy consultant, attorney and currently the Deputy United States Trade Representative and US Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He is best known for writing The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge (), which was adapted into film as The Revenant (

THE REVENANT: A NOVEL OF REVENGE by MICHAEL PUNKE. Review by Chris Fox. While working as a trapper and guide for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company in , frontiersman Hugh Glass is savagely mauled by a bear during a routine scouting mission for food. Captain Henry, leader of the ill-fated expedition, reluctantly decides to leave the mortally-wounded Glass behind in the care of two other trappers, John Fitzgerald and Jim Bridger, promising extra wages to them both if they will give Glass a. With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out, crawling at first, across hundreds of miles of uncharted American frontier. Based on a true story, The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution. Michael Punke is the author of several books including The Revenant, a #1 New York Times bestseller and basis for the Academy Award–winning film. In his diverse professional career, Punke has served as the US ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, history correspondent for the Montana Quarterly, and an adjunct professor at the University of Montana.