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Amazon.com ReviewDavid Guterson's first novel, Snow Falling on Cedars, was a true ensemble piece, in which even a high-stakes murder trial seemed like a judgment passed on the community at large. In his eloquent second novel, however, the author swings dramatically in the opposite direction. East of the Mountains is the tale of a solitary, 73-year-old Seattle widower. A retired heart surgeon, Ben Givens is an old hand at turning isolation to his advantage, both professionally and personally: "When everything human was erased from existence except that narrow antiseptic window through which another's heart could be manipulated--few were as adroit as Dr. Givens." Now, however, Ben has been dealt a problem entirely beyond his powers of manipulation: a diagnosis of terminal cancer. With just a few months to live, he sets out across the Cascades for a hunting trip, planning to take his own life once he reaches the high desert. A car crash en route puts an initial crimp in this suicide mission. But the ailing surgeon presses onward--and begins a simultaneous journey into the past. Between present-tense episodes, which demonstrate Ben's cranky commitment to his own extinction, we learn about his boyhood in Washington's apple country, his traumatic war experience in the Italian Alps, and the beginning of his vocation. Guterson narrates the apple-scented idyll of Ben's childhood in a typically low-key manner--and orchards, of course, are seldom the stuff of melodrama. Still, many of his ambling sentences offer miniature lessons in patience and perception: "They rode back all day to the Columbia, traversed it on the Colockum Ferry, and at dusk came into their orchard tired, on empty stomachs, their hats tipped back, to walk the horses between the rows of trees in a silent kind of processional, and Aidan ran his hands over limbs as he passed them with his horse behind him, the limbs trembling in the wake of his passing, and on, then, to the barn." The wartime episodes, however, are less satisfactory. Clearly Guterson has done his research down to the last stray bullet, but there's a second-hand feeling to the material, which seems less a token of Ben's detachment than the author's. There is, alas, an additional problem. Begin a story with a planned suicide, and there are exactly two possible outcomes. It would be unfair to reveal Ben's fate. But as the forces of life and death yank him one way, then another, Guterson tends to stack the deck--particularly during a bus ride toward the end of the novel, when Ben's fellow passengers appear to have wandered in from a Frank Capra film. Yet East of the Mountains remains a beautifully imagined work, in which the landscape reflects both Ben's desperation and his intermittent delight. And Guterson knows from the start what his protagonist learns in painful increments: that "a neat, uncomplicated end" doesn't exist on either side of the mountains. --James Marcus East Mountain Chamber of Commerce - Home East Mountain Chamber of Commerce; Serving Cedar Crest Tijeras Edgewood Moriarty and Sandia Park New Mexico. Uinta Mountains - Wikipedia The Uinta Mountains / ju n t / are an east-west trending chain of mountains in northeastern Utah extending slightly into southern Wyoming in the United States. Huge Crack in the Earth Opens Up East of Yellowstone ... undergroundworldnews.com This giant crack in the earth appeared in the last two weeks on a ranch we hunt in the Bighorn Mountains. Everyone here is ... The 10 Tallest Mountains East of the Mississippi USA Today Other Notable Mountains. The 10th highest peak east of the Mississippi Richland Balsam lies in the Great Balsam Mountains to the southeast of the Great Smokies. NWS radar image loop of Base Reflectivity from Knoxville ... Latest weather radar images from the National Weather Service GSMAR Smoky Mountains East TN Realty Group GSMAR (Great Smoky Mountains Board of Realtors) If you are looking for mountain cabins/land property search this MLS website. METTC The Official Website of the Middle East Tennessee ... Five Great Trails to Ride. Long and winding roads lead across East Tennessee hugging seven lakes and two Appalachian ranges: the Smokies and the Cumberland Mountains. East Mountains Cam - Pagosa Springs Colorado Web cam of the East Mountain Range in downtown Pagosa Springs Colorado from the top of Jim Smith Realty. Parks LAMountains.com East and Rice Canyons are home to the Santa Clarita Woodlands richest and lushest vegetation. The trailhead provides parking restrooms and a picnic area. Nanda Devi - Wikipedia Nanda Devi is the second highest mountain in India and the highest located entirely within the country. (Kangchenjunga which is higher is on the border of India ...
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