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Just in time for Book-It Repertory Theatre’s 20th anniversary season, the company has adapted David James Duncan’s 1983 “The River Why” for the stage.
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The classic novel of fly fishing and spirituality republished with a new afterword by the author. Since its publication in 1983, The River Why has become a classic. David James Duncan's sweeping novel is a coming-of-age comedy about love, nature, and t.
David James Duncan David James Duncan is the author of the novels The River Why and The Brothers K, the story collection River Teeth, and two nonfiction collections.His work has appeared in numerous national anthologies, including Best American Essays, Best American Sportswriting, and Best American Spiritual Writing.Duncan is widely renowned as an activist and expert fly fisher.
David James Duncan (1952-) By Bob Bumstead Rivers have always fascinated Oregon author David James Duncan, who was born in east Portland in 1952. Though he now lives in Montana on an upper tributary of the Columbia, Oregon rivers run through the current of his fiction.
The classic novel of fly fishing and spirituality republished with a new Afterword by the author. Since its publication in 1983, The River Why has become a classic. David James Duncan's sweeping novel is a coming-of-age comedy about love, nature, and the quest for self-discovery, written in a voice as distinct and powerful as any in American letters.
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David James Duncan is the author of The River Why and The Brothers K, and a collection of memoir and short stories, River Teeth. His most recent book, My Story as Told by Water, won the Western States Book Award and was nominated for the 2001 National Book Award.
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About the Author. David James Duncan is the author of the novels The River Why and The Brothers K, the story collection River Teeth, and two nonfiction collections.His work has appeared in numerous national anthologies, including Best American Essays (twice), Best American Sportswriting, and Best American Spiritual Writing (five times). Duncan is widely renowned as an activist and expert fly.
David James Duncan is the author of the novels The River Why and The Brothers K, the story collection River Teeth, and two nonfiction collections. His work has appeared in numerous national anthologies, including Best American Essays (twice), Best American Sportswriting, and Best American Spiritual Writing (five times).
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In my better moments, when I hope to write half as well as David James Duncan, I recall the words of Thomas Merton: instead of loving what you think is peace, love other men and love God above all. And instead of hating the people you think are warmongers, hate the appetites and the disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war.
Reviewed by David Cremean Black Hills State University, Spearfish, South Dakota In this collection of essays sporting perhaps the longest subtitle in recent memory, David James Duncan establishes himself as one of the worthy heirs to Cactus Ed Abbey in the art of essays polemical and personal.
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David James Duncan's sweeping novel is a coming-of-age comedy about love, nature, and the quest for self-discovery, written in a voice as distinct and powerful as any in American letters. Gus Orviston is a young fly fisherman who leaves behind his comically.