Kem Nunn is a third-generation Californian whose previous novels include The Dogs of Winter, Pomona Queen, Unassigned Territory, and Tapping the Source, which was made in to the film Point Break. Tijuana Straits won the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Southern California, where he also writes screenplays for television and film.
"The Dogs of Winter is a sharply focused story about good and
evil....There is a lot going on in this supercharged tale
of...crankster gangsters and sneaker waves, shape-shifters and
great whites. There is witchcraft, insanity, savagery, and in the
end, a peace that may indeed surpass understanding....Like the
novel's legendary surfer, who builds extra-long redwood 'guns' to
ride the big waves of the Pacific Northwest, Nunn has fashioned his
own gun -- a plot sturdy enough to carry a fair amount of
intellectual cargo a long way toward shore....Nunn has a keen ear
for the jabber of lowlifes and nincompoops. His riffs on the argot
can be wickedly funny."
-- Frank Clifford, Los Angeles Times Magazine
"No one writing in America today writes better about the surf than
Kem Nunn."
-- Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune
"Novelist Kem Nunn is the most accomplished practitioner of
California noir writing today, the principal heir to the tradition
of Raymond Chandler and Nathanael West....The Dogs of Winter...is
Nunn's best novel yet....There's probably not an American novelist
working today who is better at choreographing and describing
physical action, and few who so capably combine thrills with
clear-eyed and compassionate characterizations."
-- James Hynes, The Washington Post Book World
"Nunn's churning prose picks you up like a thirty-foot wave and
gives you one helluva ride to the beach....[The Dogs of Winter] is
the greatest novel ever written about surfing."
-- Peter Plagens, Newsweek
"Remarkable. A serious, richly satisfying novel."
-- Steve Friedman, GQ
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