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Knopf
June 2008
On Sale: June 3, 2008
272 pages
ISBN: 0307263150
EAN: 9780307263155
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Non-Fiction
From the author of the best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars,
a dazzling new novel about youth and idealism, adulthood and
its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of
what it means to live a good life. John William Barry has inherited the pedigree—and wealth—of
two of Seattle’s elite families; Neil Countryman is
blue-collar Irish. Nevertheless, when the two boys meet in
1972 at age sixteen, they’re brought together by what they
have in common: a fierce intensity and a love of the
outdoors that takes them, together and often, into
Washington’s remote backcountry, where they must rely on
their wits—and each other—to survive. Soon after graduating from college, Neil sets out on a path
that will lead him toward a life as a devoted schoolteacher
and family man. But John William makes a radically different
choice, dropping out of college and moving deep into the
woods, convinced that it is the only way to live without
hypocrisy. When John William enlists Neil to help him
disappear completely, Neil finds himself drawn into a web of
secrets and often agonizing responsibility, deceit, and
tragedy—one that will finally break open with a wholly
unexpected, life-altering revelation.
Riveting, deeply humane, The Other is David Guterson’s most
brilliant and provocative novel to date.
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