![]() It's also a mythic journey, albeit at a geriatric pace. "Mountains" is about the life examined, sometimes in excessive detail. "I spend a lot of time addressing that book." " 'Snow Falling on Cedars' has given me a kind of freedom," he says. ![]() There have been some more favorable reviews-in yesterday's Washington Post, for example.īut under the circumstances, you would think that Guterson, on tour for his new novel, would be relieved to be asked about "Snow Falling on Cedars"-a slow-mo, lilting and detail-laden tale of a murder trial set on the foggy fictional island of San Piedro in Puget Sound. "There's painfully little to pull you through this book," wrote Newsweek. The New York Times called parts "hokey" and "cliched." The reviewer wrote, "Unlike the carefully observed characters in 'Cedars,' these people feel like cardboardy mouthpieces for Mr. "The novel's plot," said People magazine, "is flat and predictable." His much-anticipated second novel, "East of the Mountains," is just out and the reviews are, for the most part, wilting. ![]() ![]() In October, a movie starring Ethan Hawke will be released. Guterson's first novel has sold millions of copies worldwide, has been translated into 26 languages and won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. To the great surprise of writer David Guterson and almost everyone else, "Snow Falling on Cedars" was a gushing success. ![]()
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