The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind - Hardcover

Guterson, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060160977 ISBN 13: 9780060160975

Publisher: Harper & Row, 1989

Synopsis

Like his PEN/Faulkner Award -- winning novel 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.

Generously imagined, masterfully restrained, and written in prose that stings like the scent of gunpowder, The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind is a collection of extraordinary power.

Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson, is also available from Random House AudioBooks.

About this title

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 the Author:

David Guterson is the author of a collection of short stories, The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind; Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense; Snow Falling on Cedars, which won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award, the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association Award, and was an international bestseller; and the national bestseller East of the Mountains.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0060160977
• ISBN 13: 9780060160975
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 162