How to Talk to a Hunter (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Pam Houston
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1980's
- Setting: Alaska
- Principal Characters: The narrator, A hunter, Her best male friend, Her best female friend, Patty Coyote
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Dogs, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Communication, Friendship, 1980’s, Single people, Hunting or hunters, Alaska, Christmas, Dating, Log cabins or houses
- Locales: Alaska
The Story
“How to Talk to a Hunter” is told in the second person through what appear to be notes or journal entries. In Alaska's bleak midwinter, as Christmas approaches and the days grow colder and shorter, an independent young woman has a relationship with a hunter. When the story begins, the hunter has given the narrator a key to his cabin. The two are not so close, though, that she has given up her own cabin—nor has the hunter given up his other girlfriends.
The narrator spends so much time at the hunter's house that he cannot play back the messages piling up...
[The entire page is 1317 words long]
See Also:
- Add How to Talk to a Hunter to your favorites