The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge

Michael Punke

Jan 2015 · Sold by Picador

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A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, Michael Punke's The Revenant is the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass.

The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company’s finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. When the men abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge. 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.

Ratings and reviews

Yes... yes, it did. Do I regret reading it? No, I don't. If you're looking for a literary climax maybe you should look somewhere else. If you want to take a semi historically accurate traipse through the wilderness in the mid 1800's then read this book. I do believe your enjoyment level depends on you imagination. It's likely they'll tweak the ending for the movie which I plan to see regardless of my proverbial balls.

I wanted to read the book before I watch the movie because I thought the movie was going to be awesome due to the previews. Tho the book was easy reading, it was not that good because of its ending. In this case hopefully for once the movie is better than the book. I am going to see it tonight in theaters.

The author is not a good writer. Using the same phrases and words to describe the same thing over and over. Character development fell of after the first few chapters. Was not a good read. The Author should stick to politics.

About the author

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. As a high school and college student, he worked summers as a living history interpreter at Fort Laramie National Historic Site in Wyoming. He lives with his family in Montana and is an avid outdoorsman.