num_pages: 279
description: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes ”a strikingly joyful book and a monumental achievement” ( The Philadelphia Inquirer ) about a dying man’s final journey through the American West.When he discovers that he has terminal cancer, retired heart surgeon Ben Givens refuses to simply sit back and wait. Instead he takes his two beloved dogs and goes on a last hunt, determined to end his life on his own terms. But as the people he meets and the memories over which he lingers remind him of the mystery of life’s endurance, his trek into the American West becomes much more than a final journey.
language: English
title: East of the Mountains
titlecomplete: East of the Mountains
genres: Audiobook, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Drama, Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 7281
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Audie Award
category: Fiction, Abridged
publisher: Vintage