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East of the Mountains

East of the Mountains

by David Guterson (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 2000

    $3.39

  • Used

    Hardcover 1999

    $3.24
Synopsis

From the author of THE COUNTRY AHEAD OF US and SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS, a tale about Dr Ben Givens, who, after becoming ill, leaves his home in Seattle, never intending to return. Ben embarks on a journey past snow-covered mountains to a place of canyons, sagelands and orchards where he intends to commit suicide, but it doesn't all go to plan.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 08 May 2000
ISBN 10: 0747545081
ISBN 13: 9780747545088
Book Overview: David Guterson is the author of the novel Snow Falling on Cedars and a collection of short stories The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind.

Media Reviews
A compassionate and masterful achievement. -- San Francisco Chronicle
A strikingly joyful book and a monumental achievement. -- The Philadelphia Inquirer
The writing is wonderful throughout, the characters are vivid... heartfelt, engaging and well drawn. -- The Miami Herald

Profound and ambitious. . . . Guterson depicts . . . moral and spiritual struggle with a clear-eyed intensity and intelligence that gives East of the Mountains its essential authority. -- Chicago Tribune
The shape is elegant, the tone is perfectly controlled, almost cool, and Guterson' s prose shines with [a] taut polish. . . .[He] is a craftsman with a sense of literary history, one of the most serious and accomplished young American writers. - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Guterson possesses a remarkable gift for capturing people and places, etching them into the reader' s mind. - USA Today
Elegiac . . . like his first novel, Guterson' s sophomore outing is a serious and surprising book. . . . A monumental achievement. - The Philadelphia Inquirer
In describing the world of a dying man, Guterson invokes the ultimate book of suffering- then, to his great credit, offers it here as a consolation rather than despair. - The Boston Sunday Globe
This book would be a challenge to praise too highly. It resounds with clarity. It feels like home. - The San Diego Union-Tribune
[Guterson] has produced a clean, unpretentious and expert piece ofwork, filled with the immediate beauty of everyday life and the desolation of leaving it behind. - The Washington Times

Wonderfully written, tender toward its characters, and full of incident and insight. - Men' s Journal

A compassionate and masterful achievement. -- San Francisco Chronicle
A strikingly joyful book and a monumental achievement. -- The Philadelphia Inquirer
The writing is wonderful throughout, the characters are vivid...heartfelt, engaging and well drawn. -- The Miami Herald

Profound and ambitious. . . . Guterson depicts . . . moral and spiritual struggle with a clear-eyed intensity and intelligence that gives East of the Mountains its essential authority. -- Chicago Tribune
The shape is elegant, the tone is perfectly controlled, almost cool, and Guterson's prose shines with [a] taut polish. . . .[He] is a craftsman with a sense of literary history, one of the most serious and accomplished young American writers. - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Guterson possesses a remarkable gift for capturing people and places, etching them into the reader's mind. - USA Today
Elegiac . . . like his first novel, Guterson's sophomore outi