Also available by David Guterson
East of the Mountains
When he is diagnosed as having terminal cancer, Ben Givens leaves his home in Seattle and heads east with his Winchester and hunting dogs in tow, not intending to return. It is to be a final journey past snow-covered mountains to a place of canyons and orchards on the verge of the Columbia River, where he had entered the world and has decided to now leave it. But what transpires is anything but the journey he anticipates.
David Guterson’s celebrated and involving prose unravels the mysteries and reveals the power of the human spirit even as it ebbs, in this moving drama set against an unforgettable landscape.
‘Suffused with moments of sorrowful beauty: that some simple joy lies therein, and that it is ultimately life-affirming, is part of its own mystery’
The Times
‘East of the Mountains, like Snow Falling on Cedars, is characterised by a rhapsodic evocation of place, firmly grounded in Guterson’s love of his native landscape’
Sunday Telegraph
‘A lyrical account of love, both physical and spiritual’
Marie Claire
ISBN: 978 0 7475 4508 8 / Paperback / £6.99
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The Other
Seattle, 1972: Neil Countryman and John William Barry, two teenage boys from very different backgrounds, are at the start of an 800m race. Their lives collide for the first time, and so begins an extraordinary friendship.
As they grow older Neil follows the conventional route of the American dream, but the eccentric, fiercely intelligent John William makes radically different choices, dropping out of college and moving deep into the woods. Convinced it is the only way to live without hypocrisy, John William enlists Neil to help him disappear completely, drawing his oldest friend into a web of secrets and agonising responsibility, deceit and tragedy – one that will finally break open with an unexpected, life-altering revelation.
‘Remarkable … a highly significant contribution to American literature’
Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland
‘Guterson’s books keep getting better … A moving portrait of male friendship’
New York Times
ISBN: 978 0 7475 9620 2 / Paperback/ £7.99
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