The Country Ahead of Us, Country Behind - Softcover

Guterson, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747525617 ISBN 13: 9780747525615

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

By the author of "Snow Falling On Cedars", this collection of short stories are mainly narrated by older men, recounting the wrong turns and lost opportunities that have occurred in their lives. They remember their mistakes, their lies and their first loves with intense and lingering recollections.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Like his PEN/Faulkner Award-winning national bestseller, Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson's beautifully observed and emotionally piercing short stories are set largely in the Pacific Northwest. In those vast landscapes, hunting, fishing, and sports are the givens of men's lives. But although Guterson's characters go into the wilderness in search of mallards or silver trout, they discover other things instead: the decay of their youthful ardor; the motiveless cruelty of strangers; their own capacity for deception and grief.

From the Inside Flap:

Like his novel, Snow Falling On Cedars, for which he received the PEN/Faulkner Award, Guterson's beautifully observed and emotionally piercing short stories are set largely in the Pacific Northwest. In these vast landscapes, hunting, fishing, and sports are the givens of men's lives. With prose that stings like the scent of gunpowder, this is a collection of power.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0747525617
• ISBN 13: 9780747525615
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256