Word: firelit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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East of the Mountains is best read, perhaps, as a kind of firelit Steinbeck Western about how a deliberate man learns the virtues of having his plans overturned and comes to embrace a life he'd all but given up on. Some readers may find the novel a little too sweet-spirited and lacking in a strong enough sense of evil to make the triumphs of goodness seem earned. Yet as a response to best-sellerdom, the book--and its author--has the bravery to strike off in a new direction. The intrinsic difficulties of completing a novel, says Guterson...