num_pages: 162
description: Like his PEN/Faulkner Award -- winning novel Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson's beautifully observed and emotionally piercing short stories are set largely in the Pacific Northwest. In those vast landscapes, hunting, fishing, and sports are the givens of men's lives. But although Guterson's characters go into the wilderness in search of mallards or silver trout, they discover other things the decay of their youthful ardor; the motiveless cruelty of strangers; their own capacity for deception and grief.Generously imagined, masterfully restrained, and written in prose that stings like the scent of gunpowder, The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind is a collection of extraordinary power.Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson, is also available from Random House AudioBooks.
language: English
title: The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind
titlecomplete: The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind
genres: Contemporary, American, The United States Of America, Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Drama, Novels, Fiction, Literature, Collections
ratings_count: 828
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: Harper & Row