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...Rachel P. Kovner contributed to the reporting of this article
Rainwater fresh and palpable as crinoline, East of the Mountains tells the story of Ben Givens, a retired heart surgeon in Seattle who has recently lost his beloved wife of 50 years, Rachel, and has been told he has terminal cancer. Pragmatic to the core, he puts his dogs into his car, collects his father's gun and, on a rainy October morning, sets off toward central Washington to shoot himself. Almost instantly, though, he smashes his car and, surviving by a miracle, finds himself a scary-looking vagabond on the loose. All he has to sustain...
...stumbles through the autumn landscape--"the prairie smelled of sage and of the dampness held in the earth"--he goes back in memory to his boyhood days of picking apples, his teenage courtship of Rachel, his service in Italy during World War II. Though the narrative is as vagrant as Snow Falling on Cedars was rooted, Guterson's gift for spinning atmospheric spells has not deserted him, and moment after moment flashes into life with the quick vividness of a photograph: the men in war going out "in mattress covers sewn into snow tunics and in creepers made of tightly...
...know when I've gone to other universities I've had a really good time at fraternities that are there because anyone can go, unlike final clubs where only the final clubs guys can go," says Rachel Perez '99, "Even if you go to the fraternities all the time you still meet different people...
...know when I've gone to other universities I've had a really good time at fraternities that are there because anyone can go, unlike final clubs where only the final clubs guys can go," says Rachel Perez '99. "Even if you go to the fraternities all the time you still meet different people...