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The Brothers K is a 1992 novel by David James Duncan, an author, fisherman, and environmental advocate from the Pacific Northwest. It builds on the sporting and spiritual themes of The River Why, Duncan's first book, but on a much larger canvas, focusing on an entire family instead of a single protagonist.
- David James Duncan
- 1992
Jan 1, 2001 · Sweeping family saga set mostly in the 1960’s – 1970’s in the state of Washington, The Brothers K is the story of the Papa Hugh Chance, a former baseball player whose career was derailed by injury, Mama Laura, a fervent Seventh Day Adventist with a painful past, and their four sons and two daughters. It is told in first person by the ...
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Jun 1, 1996 · by David James Duncan (Author) 4.5 1,236 ratings. See all formats and editions. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. Once in a great while a writer comes along who can truly capture the drama and passion of the life of a family. David James Duncan, author of the novel The River Why and the collection River Teeth, is just such a writer.
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- David James Duncan
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- Dial Press Trade Paperback
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This touching, uplifting novel spans decades of loyalty, anger, regret, and love in the lives of the Chance family. A father whose dreams of glory on a baseball field are shattered by a mill accident. A mother who clings obsessively to religion as a ward against the darkest hour of her past.
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buzzfeed.com: “The Brothers K is the Great American Novel you haven’t read.” Booklist: “Laugh-out-loud funny throughout, yet The Brothers K does what a novel should do, what one almost despairs of contemporary fiction ever doing: it teaches you something, makes you think, breaks your heart, and mends it again.”
May 1, 1992 · Hardcover. $8.65 14 Used from $4.70 2 New from $26.97 3 Collectible from $37.59. Paperback. $15.26 82 Used from $1.64 33 New from $11.10. Mass Market Paperback. $53.89 24 Used from $1.35 1 New from $53.89. Audio CD. from $79.99 1 New from $79.99. Tells the story of the baseball loving Chance family, as they grow up during the 1950s and 1960s.
David James Duncan, author of the novel The River Why and the collection River Teeth, is just such a writer. And in The Brothers K he tells a story both striking and in its originality and...
