The Other by David Guterson

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: David Guterson
• Title: The Other
• Publisher: ‎ Alfred A. Knopf; First Edition (June 3, 2008)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover ‏w/Deckle Edge – 256 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0307263150
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0307263155
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.20 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.4 x 1.2 x 9.5 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

From the author of the best-selling Snow 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 pedigree—and wealth—of 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 and often, into Washington’s remote backcountry, where they must rely on their wits—and each other—to 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 disappear completely, Neil finds himself drawn into a web of secrets and often agonizing responsibility, deceit, and tragedy—one that will finally break open with a wholly unexpected, life-altering revelation.

Riveting, deeply humane, The Other is David Guterson’s most brilliant and provocative novel to date.

About the Author:

David Guterson is the author of 12 books, including the novel Snow Falling on Cedars, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and of the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award.

His writing has been celebrated for its atmospheric intensity, narrative drive, and probing exploration of fundamental human themes–love, death, meaning, and morality among them. Guterson's body of work includes six novels, two story collections, two works of non-fiction, and two books of poetry.

He was born in Washington State and still lives there.