The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

Guterson, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679767185 ISBN 13: 9780679767183

Publisher: Vintage Contempories, 1996

Synopsis

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars—a beautifully observed and emotionally piercing collection of short stories that “center[s] on men in the Pacific Northwest, characters whose emotions are sometimes as isolated as the landscape” (The New York Times).

Like his novel, Snow Falling On Cedars, for which he received the PEN/Faulkner Award, Guterson's 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 title

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.

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.

Reviews

Reprint of Guterson's 1989 debut, a collection of short stories set mostly in the Pacific Northwest.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage Contempories
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679767185
• ISBN 13: 9780679767183
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 164