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.
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These stories show Guterson to be a writer of high purpose, one who capably deals with the painful events that illuminate and alter his characters' lives. In "Piranhas," for example, teenaged Paul comes to realize the hatred he feels for his parents, partly because the piranhas in his aquarium seem to display a kind of love and acceptance for each other that he is denied by his self-absorbed mother and father. When he feeds the piranhas, they join together and move with a kind of honesty and devotion to their purpose that mocks his loneliness and confusion. Throughout, poetic sensibility is matched by a fearless desire to look at the truth in human relationships; most of the stories are told as reminiscences by narrators who are seeking some sort of understanding in their retelling. A fine collection.
- Francis Poole, Kentucky Wesleyan Coll., Owensboro
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