His words are brought further to life by the delicate yet mythical illustrations by award-winning artist Justin Gibbens.Įach Literary Luncheon ticket includes a copy of the featured author's new hardcover book, a Mediterranean lunch catered by Cafe Arta, and an opportunity to meet and converse with new and established writers at the top of their field. Please visit the Ravenna store or call (206) 525-2347 for more information. There is a fast-moving, propulsive quality to David's writing, with lush language, vivid imagery, and pacing that resonates as a journey on foot. For award-winning novelist David Guterson, it is also a metaphor for where we find ourselves in the middle of our lives, and his new narrative poem explores this idea through a lyrical journey along a trail, much like those in Washington's mountain ranges he hiked while growing up.Įven outdoor-lovers who are not normally readers of poetry will relate to the physicality of hiking represented here, from endless trail switchbacks to foot and ankle pains. Most outdoor enthusiasts understand the phrase "turn around time" as that point in an adventure when you must cease heading out in order to have enough time to safely return to camp or home-regardless of whether you have reached your destination. More important, it represents a force of nature that humans are powerless to control.
This storm forces the islanders to cooperate, even as they put one of their own members on trial. Please join us in welcoming David Guterson for a special fall literary luncheon. While David Guterson educates his three boys at home, he is not intent on championing homeschooling here so much as explaining the underlying rationale for. Third, Guterson describes the snowstorm brewing outside the courthouse, a storm that lasts through the entire trial. DAVID GUTERSON has been away from home for only two hours, but when he walks into the kitchen of his shingle-style bungalow, telephone messages line the door frame.
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