But these aren’t your average college juniors. But who wants to die young if you lose?įor Jack and Wynn – college best friends paddling from Hudson Bay in late fall, the Canadian winter about to drop on them – a trip through the wilderness is their chance to get away from the real-life rigors of Dartmouth. If you’re coming face to face with the dead end of things, it’s likely better to be young and filled with optimism instead of old and sick at least then it’s a fair fight. It’s an unusual observation in a book filled with them, but it could also be a thesis statement for a novel ultimately about surviving the worst the world of man and nature has to offer. Few people have the luck to die “in the prime of life,” Peter Heller writes early on in his poetic and unnerving wilderness thriller “The River,” out today (Knopf, 253 pp., ★★★ out of four),
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