The Revenant
Michael Punke • 2002
Devastation Rating
revenge survival historical literary fiction
Our Take
Hugh Glass is mauled by a bear and left for dead by the men who were supposed to bury him. He crawls two hundred miles to find them. Punke writes vengeance as pure physical will — the moral question is not whether Glass is justified but what the pursuit costs him.
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