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Oct 16, 1994 · SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS By David Guterson. 345 pp. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. $21.95. IN March 1942, just before the 800 Japanese residents of San Piedro Island in Puget Sound are herded ...
Sep 12, 1994 · David Guterson. David Guterson is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist. He is best known as the author of the novel Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), which won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award. To date it has sold nearly four million copies. It was adapted for a 1999 film of the same title, directed by Scott Hicks ...
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Sep 1, 1994 · SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS. by David Guterson ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1994. Old passions, prejudices, and grudges surface in a Washington State island town when a Japanese man stands trial for the murder of a fisherman in the 1950s. Guterson (The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind, 1989, etc.) has written a thoughtful, poetic first novel, a ...
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Sep 1, 1994 · Book Summary. Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric -a masterpiece of suspense-- one that leaves us shaken and changed. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award 1995 and the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award. San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies.
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Feb 29, 1996 · Until recently, their three sons were schooled at home, largely by Mrs. Guterson, a speech therapist, and the kitchen table was the center of their school room. "We fell into home schooling by ...
It’s about a trial, and about prejudice against Asian-Americans, in a small town in Washington State – a particular time and place. Again, there’s a surprise at the end. It’s just a superb novel – full of really beautiful characterisations. Guterson grew up in that milieu – his father was a lawyer so he knows whereof he speaks. The sense of what goes on in the courtroom is ...
Book Reviews Though the courtroom setting defines the present in Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson's finely wrought and flawlessly written first novel (he is the author of a book of short stories and a guide to home schooling), this meticulously drawn legal drama forms only the topmost layer of complex time strata, which Mr. Guterson proceeds to mine assiduously through an intricate ...
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