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Jan 1, 1983 · David James Duncan (born 1952) is an American novelist and essayist, best known for his two bestselling novels, The River Why (1983) and The Brothers K (1992). Both involve fly fishing, baseball, and family. Both received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers award; The Brothers K was a New York Times Notable Book in 1992 and won a Best Books Award ...
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ISBN 0-87156-321-5 (20th Anniversary edition, paperback) ISBN 0140070036 (First edition, hardback) OCLC. 8387325,12252172. Followed by. The Brothers K. The River Why is a 1983 novel by David James Duncan. While it starts off as a fishing story, The River Why turns into the story of a young person struggling to come to grips with the modern world.
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Mar 29, 2016 · The River Why. Paperback – March 29, 2016. The classic novel of fly fishing and spirituality republished with a new Afterword by the author. Since its publication in 1983, The River Why has become a classic. David James Duncan's sweeping novel is a coming-of-age comedy about love, nature, and the quest for self-discovery, written in a voice ...
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Feb 11, 2010 · A coming-of-age story about a young fisherman, Gus Orviston, who leaves Portland to pursue an ideal life in the foothills of the Oregon Coast Range, Duncan’s novel concerns its hero’s growing ...
Sep 8, 2015 · The classic novel of fly fishing and spirituality republished with a new Afterword by the author. Since its publication in 1983, The River Why has become a classic. David James Duncan's sweeping novel is a coming-of-age comedy about love, nature, and the quest for self-discovery, written in a voice as distinct and powerful as any in American letters.
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Publisher’s Weekly : “Done in a high-velocity, exuberant style, sprawling in scale, heedless of form, the feeling for and evocation of the imperiled natural world is rhapsodic in its intensity; the writing energetic, literary in a distinctly American way... So amiable is the prevailing tone that the flowing narrative is able to absorb ...
Plot Summary. The 1983 novel The River Why melds the genres of bildungsroman and philosophical treatise to create a spiritually rich and emotionally complex story about finding meaning in life. Written by American novelist and essayist David James Duncan, the book borrows from the tradition of first-person explorations of values and ideals like ...
