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East Of The Mountains

by Guterson, David

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ISBN 13
9780747539858
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Bloomsbury, 1999. 1st edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG+. [vi]+279pp, SIGNED by the author on the half title, head & tail of the dustjacket a little bumped, otherwise a fine copy. Washington set fiction which sees a disillusioned & ill man head off into the hills to recapture his youth with his Winchester rifle.

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
Eastleach Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
East Of The Mountains
Author
Guterson, David
Format/Binding
Hardback
Book Condition
Used
Edition
1st edition.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0747539855
ISBN 13
9780747539858
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1999
Keywords
ISBN 0747539855, fiction

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