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East of the Mountains

East of the Mountains

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East of the Mountains

by Guterson, David

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ISBN 10
0151002290
ISBN 13
9780151002290
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New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999 First printing of stated first edition. Signed by David Guterson directly on the title page, includes bookseller's event ticket for the author's reading/signing. Book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition.

Synopsis

It is mid-October, 1997, harvest time in the Columbia Basin of central Washington state, a rich apple- and pear-growing region. Ben Givens, recently widowed, is a retired heart surgeon, once admired for his steadiness of hand, his precision, his endurance. He has terminal colon cancer. While Ben does not readily accept defeat, he is determined to avoid suffering rather than engage it. And so, accompanied by his two hunting dogs, he sets out through the mythic American West-sage deserts, yawning canyons, dusty ranches, vast orchards-on his last hunt. The main issues for Ben as a doctor had been tactical and so it would be with his death. But he hadn't considered the persuasiveness of memory-the promise he made to his wife Rachel, the love of his life, during World War II. Or life's mystery. On his journey he meets a young couple who are "forever," a drifter offering left-handed advice that might lessen the pain, a veterinarian with a touch only a heart surgeon would recognize, a rancher bent on destruction, a migrant worker who tests Ben's ability to understand. And just when he thinks there is no turning back, nothing to lose that wasn't lost, his power of intervention is called upon and his very identity tested. Full of humanity, passion, and moral honesty, East of the Mountains is a bold and beautiful novel of personal discovery.

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Bookseller
Idler Fine Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
022617
Title
East of the Mountains
Author
Guterson, David
Illustrator
Chris van Houts (Author's Photo); Richard Villacres (Jacket Photo); Vaughn Andrews
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st Edition
ISBN 10
0151002290
ISBN 13
9780151002290
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Company
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1999
Keywords
FICTION, LITERATURE.

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