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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.
Gus Orviston is a young fly fisherman who leaves behind his comically schizoid family to find his own path. Taking refuge in a remote cabin, he sets out in pursuit of the Pacific Northwest's elusive steelhead. But what begins as a physical quarry becomes a spiritual one as his quest for self-knowledge batters him with unforeseeable experiences.
Profoundly reflective about our connection to nature and to one another, The River Why is also a comedic rollercoaster. Like Gus, the reader emerges utterly changed, stripped bare by the journey Duncan so expertly navigates.
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Release date
June 6, 2017 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781478915829
- File size: 441012 KB
- Duration: 15:18:46
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Dick Hill moves from yokel to philosopher with the agility of the steelhead, which features so prominently in Duncan's whopper of a fish story. In narrating Gus Orviston's tale of growing up in a fishing-obsessed family, Hill captures "Ma's cowgirl crudity" and her family's "overcooked Eastern Oregon drawl" as perfectly as he does the British ways of Gus's father. At age 19 Orviston sets out on a journey--leaving home for a cabin on an Oregon River--where he finds love, fish, and social responsibility. Fishermen may find too much philosophy and philosophers too many fish tales, but Hill balances both with the skill of one who has told many tall tales. D.P.D. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
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