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EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS
de GUTERSON, David
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New York: Harcourt Brace, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. 279 pages. SIGNED in ink by the Author on the title page. Illustrated dustjacket. Green boards. Octavo. By the author of Snow Falling On Cedars. A Doctor's journey in the Columbia Basin of central Washington State. From the jacket, "Full of humanity, passion, and moral honesty, East of the Mountains is a bold and beautiful novel of personal discovery." A FINE copy in a FINE dust jacket, now in a clear mylar protective jacket. Always FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address.
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- Hardy Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1408
- Título
- EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS
- Autor
- GUTERSON, David
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition, First Printing
- Editorial
- Harcourt Brace
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999
- Palabras clave
- Washington, Columbia River, Novel, Books to Film, Medicin, physicians12
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