Wolf of Shadows

by Whitley Strieber

Book Overview

In the terrible aftermath of a nuclear holocaust, a wolf and a human woman form a mysterious bond that brings each close to the spirits of the shattered earth. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039487224X
• ISBN13: 9780394872247
• Release Date: September 1985
• Publisher: Random House Children's Books
• Length: 105 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Survives with Wolves.

A family learns to survive in the post apocalypse nuclear winter by living with a pack of wolves. Strieber's "Young Adult" novel is a classic of its kind. Highly recommended.

Wolf of Shadows is a top dog!!! Woof

This book is usually located in the children's section of a public library or bookstore, although not necessarily a children's book. And, in fact, I read this book many years ago when one of my then young children brought it home from the grammar school library. I have never forgotten it, and when library patrons ask me, a reference librarian, for a good read, something easy to get into, "Wolf-of-Shadows" is at the top of my list. The story takes place in the future although it could happen today. The members of a pack of wolves in northern Canada, must learn to cooperate with each other if they are going to survive a cataclysmic event witnessed by them and their leadear, Wolf-of-Shadows. In their journey to safety, they encounter humans unable to fend for themselves. The humans and the wolves cautiously move in tandem each learning from the other.

A hear-opening book.

From a rock where he sits, Wolf Of Shadows is the only one to see the great distant nuclear missle explode and rock the land. In a desperate attempt to save his newly-acquired pack, he goes south with the strange, strange female two-legged thing and her daughter, Shannon, in search of a place where life can be reborn This book is slighly too hopful, as the author says in the afterwards. But it is a remarkable book about survivul in a barren land and the bonds and ties of love.