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East of the Mountains
de Guterson, David
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0747539855
- ISBN 13
- 9780747539858
- Librería
-
Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1999. First Edition, First Impression . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 1999 First edition, first impression. Size octavo, 279 pages. Black hard cover with gilt titles to the spine, with dust jacket. Book condition fine, a very clean copy. Dust jacket condition near fine, very slight curl to top edge else fine, not price clipped. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Lazarus Books Limited
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 015464
- Título
- East of the Mountains
- Autor
- Guterson, David
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition, First Impression
- ISBN 10
- 0747539855
- ISBN 13
- 9780747539858
- Editorial
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999
- Palabras clave
- FICTION NOVELS ADVENTURE LIFE
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Sobre el vendedor
Lazarus Books Limited
Miembro de Biblio desde 2007
Blackpool, Lancashire
Sobre Lazarus Books Limited
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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- Price Clipped
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