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From the author of the best-sellingSnow Falling on Cedars, a dazzling new novel about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life. John William Barry has inherited the pedigreeand wealthof two of Seattle's elite families; Neil Countryman is blue-collar Irish. Nevertheless, when the two boys meet in 1972 at age sixteen, they're brought together by what they have in common: a fierce intensity and a love of the outdoors that takes them together into Washington's remote backcountry, where they must rely on their witsand each otherto survive. Soon after graduating from college, Neil sets out on a path that will lead him toward a life as a devoted schoolteacher and family man. But John William makes a radically different choice, dropping out of college and moving deep into the woods, convinced that it is the only way to live without hypocrisy. When John William enlists Neil to help him dis- appear completely, Neil finds himself drawn into a web of secrets and often agonizing responsibility, deceit, and tragedyone that will finally break open with a wholly unexpected, life-altering revelation. Riveting, deeply humane,The Otheris David Guterson's most brilliant and provocative novel to date.Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-100739328875
ISBN-139780739328873
eBay Product ID (ePID)63177455
Product Key Features
Book TitleOther
TopicGeneral, Literary
Publication Year2008
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorDavid Guterson
FormatCompact Disc
Dimensions
Item Height1.1in.
Item Length6in.
Item Width5in.
Item Weight9.6 Oz
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"EWPick. In 1972, two Seattle teens, working-class Irish boy Neil Countryman and tortured trust funder John William Barry, bond over their love of adventuring in the Northwest's vast wilderness. Countryman, who continues on to college, marriage, and a career teaching high school English, narrates the story of helping Barry drop out of society to live a hermit's life 'without hypocrisy' in a remote, self-excavated cave. [This plot] is the perfect scaffolding to support Guterson's absorbing meditation on what it means to grow up, sell out, and lead an honest life. A." Karen Karbo,Entertainment Weekly "Mesmerizing, even heart-breaking . . . vivid . . . David Guterson explores the fissures in our divided souls: Attachment vs. alienation; moral behavior vs. expediency; joy vs. suffering . . .The Otherexamines the dilemma that has confounded sages and saints for millennia: whether to engage in our tormented world, or turn our faces from it. . . . By indelibly capturing the Seattle of the 1970s and '80s, [the novel] becomes a testament to the city's breathless transition from a quirky, idiosyncratic town of working- and middle-class families to a metropolis for the nouveau-techno riche. . . . With fine-grained details, Guterson displays his near-photographic memory for the fading details of our city's heritage. [He] is equally eloquent on the raw terrain of the Olympic Peninsula . . .The Otherstayed with this reader for days after finishing the book. [The narrator] Neil Countryman is a rich, complicated Everyman . . . And [his best friend] John William must go down as one of the saddest figures in contemporary literaturea bright young man swallowed by his own darkness. Most of us have a friend or loved one who dropped out, checked out and faded away. Could we have saved them? By choosing a different path, have we saved our own skins/souls, or merely preserved them? These are the questionsThe Otherraises. Readers will spend a long time thinking about the answers." Mary Ann Gwinn,The Seattle Times "The Otherfeatures an unclaimed $440 million inheritance and a mummified corpse found in Washington's Olympic Mountains, but it's no murder mystery. Guterson uses these circumstances as the backdrop to [a] tale of two Seattle friends [who] forge an unlikely friendship . . . With prose that's as careful and quiet as a mountain lion,The Otherasks, and helps answer, two of life's most perplexing questions: How do we live in an imperfect world, and what are our obligations to those we love?" Steven Rinella,Outside "[Guterson's] most brilliant and provocative novel yet. . . . He presents the reader with the quintessential questions of value and choice that shape life. It contains all the elements of youth, idealism and compromise, by paralleling two very different lives." Bill Duncan, Roseburg (Oregon)News-Review "PEN/Faulkner Award winner Guterson constructs a sensationalistic story that in other hands might have emerged as a page-turning potboiler. Here, events unfold in exquisitely refined prose, which creates a plot as believable as any quotidian workday, while evoking an unforgettable sense of place in its depiction of Washington State's wilderness. . . . Bonded by a mutual love of the outdoors, working-class Neil [Countryman] and wealthy John William Barry become lifelong friends despite cultural disparities. The bond holds as their adult paths diverge, Neil choosing to teach while John William retreats to a hermit's life in remote woodlands. When Neil agrees to help his friend disappear, haunting questions of values, responsibi, " EW Pick. In 1972, two Seattle teens, working-class Irish boy Neil Countryman and tortured trust funder John William Barry, bond over their love of adventuring in the Northwest's vast wilderness. Countryman, who continues on to college, marriage, and a career teaching high school English, narrates the story of helping Barry drop out of society to live a hermit's life 'without hypocrisy' in a remote, self-excavated cave. [This plot] is the perfect scaffolding to support Guterson's absorbing meditation on what it means to grow up, sell out, and lead an honest life. A." Karen Karbo, Entertainment Weekly "Mesmerizing, even heart-breaking . . . vivid . . . David Guterson explores the fissures in our divided souls: Attachment vs. alienation; moral behavior vs. expediency; joy vs. suffering . . . The Other examines the dilemma that has confounded sages and saints for millennia: whether to engage in our tormented world, or turn our faces from it. . . . By indelibly capturing the Seattle of the 1970s and '80s, [the novel] becomes a testament to the city's breathless transition from a quirky, idiosyncratic town of working- and middle-class families to a metropolis for the nouveau-techno riche. . . . With fine-grained details, Guterson displays his near-photographic memory for the fading details of our city's heritage. [He] is equally eloquent on the raw terrain of the Olympic Peninsula . . . The Other stayed with this reader for days after finishing the book. [The narrator] Neil Countryman is a rich, complicated Everyman . . . And [his best friend] John William must go down as one of the saddest figures in contemporary literaturea bright young man swallowed by his own darkness. Most of us have a friend or loved one who dropped out, checked out and faded away. Could we have saved them? By choosing a different path, have we saved our own skins/souls, or merely preserved them? These are the questions The Other raises. Readers will spend a long time thinking about the answers." Mary Ann Gwinn, The Seattle Times " The Other features an unclaimed $440 million inheritance and a mummified corpse found in Washington's Olympic Mountains, but it's no murder mystery. Guterson uses these circumstances as the backdrop to [a] tale of two Seattle friends [who] forge an unlikely friendship . . . With prose that's as careful and quiet as a mountain lion, The Other asks, and helps answer, two of life's most perplexing questions: How do we live in an imperfect world, and what are our obligations to those we love?" Steven Rinella, Outside "[Guterson's] most brilliant and provocative novel yet. . . . He presents the reader with the quintessential questions of value and choice that shape life. It contains all the elements of youth, idealism and compromise, by paralleling two very different lives." Bill Duncan, Roseburg (Oregon) News-Review "PEN/Faulkner Award winner Guterson constructs a sensationalistic story that in other hands might have emerged as a page-turning potboiler. Here, events unfold in exquisitely refined prose, which creates a plot as believable as any quotidian workday, while evoking an unforgettable sense of place in its depiction of Washington State's wilderness. . . . Bonded by a mutual love of the outdoors, working-class Neil [Countryman] and wealthy John William Barry become lifelong friends despite cultural disparities. The bond holds as their adult paths diverge, Neil choosing to teach while John William retreats to a hermit's life in remote woodlands. When Neil agrees to help his friend disappear, haunting questions of values, responsibility, and choice leave Neiland the readers of this provocative fictionto ponder the proper definition
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