The Other (41 page)
Authors: David Guterson
Tags: #Psychological, #Psychological Fiction, #Recluses, #Fiction, #Literary, #Washington (State), #Male friendship, #General
Palgrave Macmillan: Excerpt from “Stony Grey Soil” from
A Soul for Sale
by Patrick Kavanagh (Macmillan, 1947). Reprinted by permission of Palgrave Macmillan.
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Narrow Road to the Interior and Other Writings
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A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
D
AVID
G
UTERSON
is the author of the novels
Snow Falling on Cedars, East of the Mountains,
and
Our Lady of the Forest,
as well as a story collection,
The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind.
A PEN/Faulkner Award winner, he is a cofounder of Field’s End, an organization for writers in Washington State.
ALSO BY DAVID GUTERSON
Our Lady of the Forest
East of the Mountains
Snow Falling on Cedars
Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense
The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2008 by David Guterson
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Permission to reprint previously published material may be found following the Acknowledgments.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Guterson, David.
The other / David Guterson.—1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-26941-6
1. Male friendship—Fiction. 2. Recluses—Fiction. 3. Washington (State)—Fiction. 4. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PS
3557.
U
846o75 2008
813'.54—dc22 2007041098
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business organizations, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. The author’s use of names of actual persons, places, and characters is incidental to the plot, and is not intended to change the entirely fictional character of the work.
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