Book review - Emotions left out in the wilderness
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THE OTHER David Guterson Bloomsbury, £18.99
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The Other by David Guterson (Unabridged Audiobook)
full and free download (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
A deeply engrossing story about friendship, youth, and idealism from the bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars. When John William Barry and Neil Countryman met in 1972, the 16-year-old boys find they share a youthful idealism and a love of the outdoors. But after high school, their paths diverge. John William eventually drops out of society, and only Neil knows his whereabouts. He remains loyal...
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Why Is This Best-Selling Author and Public School Teacher Homeschooling His Kids?
Al Fin (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Best selling author of the excellent novel "Snow Falling on Cedars", David Guterson, happens to teach English at a public high school in the Pacific Northwest. So why does he homeschool his own kids? For that matter, why do a high percentage of public school teachers send their own kids to private schools? But I digress. Guterson has recently written a comprehensive book on the topic of homeschooling,...
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The Other
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind The Other by David Guterson / Jennifer McKeown...
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A natural friendship
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
David Guterson's 'The Other' tells the tale of two men whose relationship centers on the wilds of Washington state THE OTHER by David Guterson Knopf / 255 pages / $24.95 I n the movies, bad things happen in the woods. Scary things. Things that are life-altering or murderous or both.
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More Kindling (by Russell Roberts)
Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Just finished my first book on the Kindle—The Other, by David Guterson—and thought I'd share a few more thoughts on the Kindle experience. I really enjoyed reading an entire book. Looked forward to picking it up. Found it a pleasure...
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Friendship and roads less traveled
The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
It was the best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars that gained David Guterson his well-deserved following. With each subsequent novel, Guterson has taken risks in storytelling that have fulfilled the promise of that first book.
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An excerpt from David Guterson's "The Other"
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
"The Other" is writer David Guterson's love song to Seattle, the city where he was born and raised.
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Books of The Times: A Familiar Tale of a Man Losing Himself in the Wild
New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
While David Guterson has created an engaging enough voice for his narrator, Neil Countryman, much of his novel feels derivative and overly familiar.
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David Guterson’s new book
News & Commentary Home Page (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Dropping out, hiding out and looking for answers, 21 June 2008, The Age, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia The Other tells of two friends, seemingly opposites, who bond as teenagers through their passion for the outdoors. The narrator, Neil Countryman, is a public high-school student of working-class stock who follows the relatively conventional path taken by Guterson - [...]
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Review: 'Cedars' author details 2 people, different worlds
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
If nothing else, David Guterson has been an excellent promoter of his beloved Northwest. He is a Washington state boy through and through, setting his novels amid the beauty of the region, beginning with his best-selling "Snow Falling on Cedars."
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Reviewing ‘The Other,’ Guterson’s haunting tale of a lost youth
MSNBC.com: Newsweek Society (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
It takes a while, but David Guterson's new novel unsettles us with its tale of a promising young man—and who hasn't known one—who mysteriously goes off the rails.
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Insights in 'The Other' get lost on a meandering trail
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
David Guterson caught everybody's attention in 1994 with his best-selling first novel, “Snow Falling on Cedars,” a fierce love story wrapped around a suspenseful murder trial. But that intricately plotted book seems more and more an anomaly for this Seattle writer.
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Into the Woods
New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
In David Guterson’s latest, a Seattle scion retreats to a hermit’s life in a cave.
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The size of a teen-age eagle? Really?
pages turned (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
We were all delighted when David Sedaris's latest, When You Are Engulfed in Flames , showed up in the mail yesterday. I left it for the others to read and admire, though, turning my attention to library fare, particularly David Guterson's The Other (I think I do want to read this one, but I'm going to wait till it shows up at the university library), until close to bedtime when I thought I'd quickly...
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