River Teeth: Stories and Writings - Hardcover

Duncan, David James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385477279 ISBN 13: 9780385477277

Publisher: Doubleday, 1995

Synopsis

The author of The Brothers K presents several short stories, including one about a self-appointed visionary who guards a river, alternating with real-life reminiscences of his experiences around the rivers of the Northwest.

About this title

Review:

"Exquisite." --Buzz

"Poignant, funny, and artful, Duncan's Oriver teeth' are like elongated American haiku, stretching their grainy syllables from the home plate of nostalgia to the outfield fences of eternity." --Tom Robbins

"To read River Teeth is to have a stranger's recollections loom up out of vagary and namelessness, and to grip you as if they were your own." --Los Angeles Times

"David James Duncan is in love with water, the rivers and streams that coursed through his life. Believe me, you will be swept up by his rivers, carried downstream, and deposited in a new place. In that new place, Duncan will build a fire and tell you a bunch of stories. What else could you want?" --Sherman Alexie

About the Author:

David James Duncan is the author of two novels, The River Why and The Brothers K, and River Teeth, a joint memoir and collection of stories. The River Why ranks thirty-fifth on the San Francisco Chronicle list of The 20th Century's 100 Best Books of the American West. The Brothers K is an American Library Association Best Books Award-winner and a New York Times Notable Book. Both novels won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award.

Duncan has read and lectured all over the United States on wilderness, the writing life, the nonmonastic contemplative life, the fly fishing life, and nonreligious literature of faith. His work has appeared in Harper's, Outside, Orion, The Sun, Sierra, Big Sky Journal, Northern Lights, Gray's Sporting Journal, and many other publications. He lives with his family on a Montana trout stream.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0385477279
• ISBN 13: 9780385477277
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 259