Like Snow Falling on Cedars, Guterson's stories are set largely in the Pacific Northwest. In those vast landscapes, hunting, fishing, and sports are the givens of men's lives. Although Guterson's characters go into the wilderness in search of mallards or silver trout, they discover other things instead--the decay of their youthful ardor, the motiveless cruelty of strangers, and their own capacity for deception and grief.
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Like Snow Falling on Cedars, Guterson's stories are set largely in the Pacific Northwest. In those vast landscapes, hunting, fishing, and sports are the givens of men's lives. Although Guterson's characters go into the wilderness in search of mallards or silver trout, they discover other things instead--the decay of their youthful ardor, the motiveless cruelty of strangers, and their own capacity for deception and grief.
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Fine book in a fine dust jacket. 162 pages First edition, first printing. Guterson's first book, a collection of short stories set mostly in the Pacific Northwest. A Granta top 20 writer. His first book of short stories, only 7000 published & most were destroyed. Fine book with very slight dampstaing to the top edge of the cloth in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
1996,
Random House Audio Publishing Group, New York, NY
