East of the Mountains
Harcourt Brace and Company, 1999. First Edition. Boards. Fine / Fine in Plastic Cover. Item #5131
ISBN: 0151002290
A fine unread First Edition signed by the prize-winning author of "Snow Falling On Cedars" which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1995. In olive-green boards with a fine colorful dust jacket in protective plastic cover. David Guterson is also the author of a collection of short stores, "The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind" and of "Family Matters: Why Home Schooling Makes Sense."
"East of the Mountains" explores themes of confronting aging and death. In an interview with Bill Goldstein in 1999, Guterson said, "My character is 73 years old and faced with death and so of course his meditations are...suffused with spiritual considerations at this point...Feeling right inside your loneliness is exactly what we all are going to need to achieve as we approach our own death because death is the loneliest thing possible. And we all know that in the end we are alone no matter how wonderful and beautiful our relationships might be. In the end we are going to die alone. And we are going to have to find a way to feel right within our aloneness."
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