The Other
by David Guterson
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Author: David GutersonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Deckle Edge
Published: 2008-06-03
ISBN: 0307263150
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Knopf
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- Hardcover - light blue and grey with leaf design in gilt. Jacket is scene of a field
- of snow. 256 pages
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Book Review: "I don't want to participate in any of it."
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is the most quintessentially Seattle book I've ever read. There's plenty of Portland in there, too, and the Pacific Northwestern reader will feel constant ripples of recognition and amusement as Guterson dissects our urban obsession with what we eat and drink and the precise ways in which we indulge our picky forms of consumerism.
As a novel, this is a fascinating story. Two young men are obsessed with turning their backs on the Hamburger world, and one does to its terrible end. The story has a neat trick, you see... the one takes the place of the other. I won't elaborate for fear of spoiling the story, but it's a fine, fine piece of plotting.
The book tends towards the catalog, an almost Whitmanesque accrual of details. You'll either love it or hate it (I loved it). I admit I bridled at being asked to settle in for Rand's final monolog, but once I did, I hoped that I'd finally be getting to the root of things. But of course, that's saved for the last page, that final sense of, "oooooh."
Excellent.
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