The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars--a beautifully observed and emotionally piercing collection of short stories that "center[s] on men in the Pacific Northwest, characters whose emotions are sometimes as isolated as the landscape" (The New York Times).

Like his novel, Snow Falling On Cedars, for which he received the PEN/Faulkner Award, Guterson's short stories are set largely in the Pacific Northwest. In these vast landscapes, hunting, fishing, and sports are the givens of men's lives. With prose that stings like the scent of gunpowder, this is a collection of power.

Author: David Guterson
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/30/1996
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.20w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780679767183

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/05/1996 pg. 32
Publishers Weekly 11/27/1995

About the Author
DAVID GUTERSON is the author of a collection of short stories, The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind; Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense; Snow Falling on Cedars, which won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award, the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association Award, and was an international bestseller; and the national bestseller East of the Mountains.