![]() ![]() March 10 at the Kettle Moraine High School Theater, 349 North Oak Crest Drive, Wales. Picoult will give a talk and sign books at 1 p.m. ![]() "Narrating this strange solitary man’s story in flashbacks, Picoult captures Luke’s destructive but magnificent obsession with these shy predators, weaving in details about how the mysterious creatures live, hunt, love and die." (The section on how they come to accept him is riveting.) Tall, blond and magnetic, Luke becomes a YouTube sensation upon his return when he creates his own captive wolf pack - and is filmed eating calf and deer carcasses with them. "What saves 'Lone Wolf' is Picoult’s depiction of Luke’s other families, the different packs of wolves he has known and loved - including the two years he lives with a wild wolf pack in Canada. In a review of "Lone Wolf" published in the Chicago Sun-Times, Deirdre Donahue writes: To twist a phrase from Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Luke is the Man Who Ran With the Wolves. "Lone Wolf" (Atria, $28), Picoult's new book, certainly lands on a hot issue: siblings, 23 and 17 years old, in a courtroom battle over the right to make end-of-life decisions for their father, seriously injured in a car crash.īut much of the buzz about the novel focuses on the back story Picoult has created for Luke, the injured father. Readers of Jodi Picoult's novels know she'll give them a story with a high-stakes personal conflict, rooted in a real-life topic, such as school shootings ("Nineteen Minutes"), Asperger's syndrome ("House Rules") and frozen embyros ("Sing You Home"), to name a few. ![]()
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