David Guterson
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Language
English
Description
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award ▪ American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award
"Haunting....A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper."—Los Angeles Times
San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local...
"Haunting....A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper."—Los Angeles Times
San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local...
2) The other
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Language
English
Description
John William Barry is from a wealthy Seattle family, Neil Countryman is blue-color Irish, they met age sixteen through their love of the outdoors. After college Neil is on the path of becoming a schoolteacher and family man, John drops out of college and moves deep into the woods. He enlists Neils help in disappearing completely and Neils is drawn into a web of secrets.
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Language
English
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In Washington State, a widowed doctor suffering from cancer takes a hunting trip, the real purpose of which is to commit suicide, which he will masquerade as an accident. But Dr. Ben Givens' resolve is tested by several events which reaffirm the joy of living--he cheats death by fighting off wolves and helps a girl give birth.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A provocative new novel from the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars--a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. In a small rural town outside Seattle, Joanna, an Ethiopian girl adopted by a white fundamentalist Christian family, is found dead of hypothermia in her own backyard--setting in motion a gripping journey into the complexities of...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
An honest, perceptive discussion of children, education, and our common life as a nation by the bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars. A high school English teacher, Guterson and his wife educate their own children at home.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Consists of short stories set largely in the Pacific Northwest. Guterson's characters go into the wilderness in search of mallards or silver trout, but discover other things instead: the decay of their youthful ardor; the motiveless cruelty of strangers; their own capacity for deception and grief.