This Book was written by David Guterson. He wrote another book which I
don't know much about called Snow Falling on Cedars. But he wrote this
book which I was interested in certain parts of it, such as his ideal of wanting
to commit suicide, a drifter who gave him some help on lessening the pain,
and when he talked about his pass of when he was recruited from Camp Hale.
This was a good book in my opinion.
This book was set in the season of fall and it was around 1997. In the
book he talked of his past when he was a little kid with his dad and when he
was growing up meeting his wife. The area was a country type place in a rich
apple growing region. In the state of Washington were he goes to many
mountains in the surrounding area. This was the setting of the book.
There were many characters in this book. The main character of this
book was Ben Givens a seventy- three year old retired heart surgeon. The
whole story was set around him. Then there was his family......
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