The River Why is a 1983 novel by David James Duncan. While it starts off as a fishing story, The River Why turns into the story of a young person struggling to come to grips with the modern world. 3 20th anniversary edition. 4 Film and theatrical adaptation. 6 External links. A coming-of-age story narrated by Gus Orviston, a high school.
David James Duncan, River Teeth: Stories and Writings (Doubleday 1995). In honor of trout season opening, this seemed a perfect book to review. My introduction to David James Duncan came through The River Why, which provides a new twist on the coming of age novel. Many of the same themes are explored in this collection of writing. There are.
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.
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Once in a great while a writer comes along who can truly capture the drama and passion of the life of a family. David James Duncan, author of the novel The River Why and the collection River Teeth, is just such a writer.And in The Brothers K he tells a story both striking and in its originality and poignant in its universality.
In his passionate, luminous novels, David James Duncan has won the devotion of countless critics and readers, earning comparisons to Harper Lee, Tom Robbins, and J.D. Salinger, to name just a few. Now Duncan distills his remarkable powers of observation into this unique collection of short stories and essays. At the heart of Duncan's tales are characters undergoing the complex and violent.
DAVID JAMES DUNCAN. David's classic novel, The River Why, will appear in a new eiditon from Little-Brown in 2015. The Brothers K remains one of America's most engaging baseball novels. Widely respected for his materful short stories and essays, David has published three collections: River Teeth, My Story As Told By Water, and God Laughs and Plays. My Story As Told By Water made the short list.