Mink River
by Doyle, Brian
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0870715852
- ISBN 13
- 9780870715853
- Seller
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Prescott, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Used. Good Condition. Minimal wear on cover. Book is slightly buckled. Pages are clean and crisp. Like Dylan Thomas' "Under Milk Wood" and Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio, " Brian Doyle's stunning fiction debut brings a town to life through the jumbled lives and braided stories of its people. In a small fictional town on the Oregon coast there are love affairs and almost-love-affairs, mystery and hilarity, bears and tears, brawls and boats, a garrulous logger and a silent doctor, rain and pain, Irish immigrants and Salish stories, mud and laughter. There's a Department of Public Works that gives haircuts and counts insects, a policeman addicted to Puccini, a philosophizing crow, beer and berries. An expedition is mounted, a crime committed, and there's an unbelievably huge picnic on the football field. Babies are born. A car is cut in half with a saw. A river confesses what it's thinking. . . It's the tale of a town, written in a distinct and lyrical voice, and readers will close the book more than a little sad to leave the village of Neawanaka, on the wet coast of Oregon, beneath the hills that used to boast the biggest trees in the history of the world.
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- Bookseller
- Lifeways Books & Gifts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- doy2013
- Title
- Mink River
- Author
- Doyle, Brian
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0870715852
- ISBN 13
- 9780870715853
- Publisher
- Oregon State University Press
- Place of Publication
- Corvallis, Or
- Date Published
- 2013
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...