Mink River Contributor(s): Doyle, Brian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0870715852 ISBN-13: 9780870715853 Publisher: Oregon State University Press OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2010007210 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.15 lbs) 319 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Like Dylan Thomas' "Under Milk Wood" and Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio, " Brian Doyle's stunning fiction debut brings a town to life through the jumbled lives and braided stories of its people. In a small fictional town on the Oregon coast there are love affairs and almost-love-affairs, mystery and hilarity, bears and tears, brawls and boats, a garrulous logger and a silent doctor, rain and pain, Irish immigrants and Salish stories, mud and laughter. There's a Department of Public Works that gives haircuts and counts insects, a policeman addicted to Puccini, a philosophizing crow, beer and berries. An expedition is mounted, a crime committed, and there's an unbelievably huge picnic on the football field. Babies are born. A car is cut in half with a saw. A river confesses what it's thinking. . . It's the tale of a town, written in a distinct and lyrical voice, and readers will close the book more than a little sad to leave the village of Neawanaka, on the wet coast of Oregon, beneath the hills that used to boast the biggest trees in the history of the world. |