Breaking Wild

Diane Les Becquets
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Diane Les Becquets
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320 PAGESENGLISH

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  • Published date: Feb 09, 2016
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 320
  • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
  • ISBN: 9780425283783
  • Dimensions: 6.3" W x 1.3" L x 9.4" H

Diane Les Becquets is a faculty member and former director of the MFA Program in Fiction and Non-Fiction at Southern New Hampshire University. In addition to teaching creative writing, she has worked as a medical journalist; an archaeology assistant; a marketing consultant; a sand and gravel dispatcher; a copywriter; and a lifeguard, and is also an avid outdoorswoman. A native of Nashville, she spent almost fourteen years living in a small Colorado ranching town before moving to New Hampshire.

“[A] crisp, immersive novel.”—Entertainment Weekly

“A visceral book, building suspense from sensory details…A page turning, two-pronged wildlife adventure.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
“Saturated with atmosphere and emotionally rich characters…An astonishing and complex portrait of two strong, independent women damaged by their pasts.”—BookBrowse (5 stars)
 
“Compelling…[Les Becquets] writes a tightly wound novel set against a background filled with details of hunting and outdoor life.”—The Denver Post
 
“The sheer force of this book lies in the force of its two main characters.”—Tana French, New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Place
 
“Diane Les Becquets brings to life the story of two very different and captivating women, whose worlds collide through a series of unexpected and compelling circumstances…[A] heart-wrenching tale.”—John Searles, New York Times bestselling author of Help for the Haunted 
 
“Harrowing yet compulsive, this novel is as wild as the landscape it portrays, and it''s just as dangerous.”—Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author of This Dark Road to Mercy

“A taut and thrilling narrative…Skillfully blending the emotional terrain of women’s fiction with a briskly paced adventure story.”—Booklist (starred review)

“Les Becquets’ prose is as spare, haunting, and nuanced as the wild landscape she brings to life…A transcendent, breathless exploration of the darkest depths of loneness and the unbreakable human spirit.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"A powerful story of survival, wilderness field craft, and fractured relationships packed into a suspenseful plot with more than a few surprises."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“[A] thoughtful page-turner…Though this is fiction, readers who enjoyed the internal development of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild will find a lot to like here.”—Library Journal

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