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020 _a9781786498823
_q(hardcover ;
_qalk. paper)
040 _cAE-ShPAA
050 _aPS3613.A76594
_bM37 2019
082 _a813/.6
100 1 _aMarlantes, Karl,
_eauthor.
_914454
245 1 0 _aDeep river :
_ba novel /
_cKarl Marlantes.
250 _aFirst edition. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bAtlantic Monthly Press,
_c2019.
300 _a724 pages :
_bmaps ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _a"New York Times-bestselling author of Matterhorn"--Dust jacket.
501 _aP.B
520 _a"Karl Marlantes's debut novel Matterhorn has been hailed as a modern classic of war literature. In his new novel, Deep River, Marlantes turns to another mode of storytelling--the family epic--to craft a stunningly expansive narrative of human suffering, courage, and reinvention. In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings--Ilmari, Matti, and the politicized young Aino--are forced to flee to the United States. Not far from the majestic Columbia River, the siblings settle among other Finns in a logging community in southern Washington, where the first harvesting of the colossal old-growth forests begets rapid development, and radical labor movements begin to catch fire. The brothers face the excitement and danger of pioneering this frontier wilderness--climbing and felling trees one-hundred meters high--while Aino, foremost of the books many strong, independent women, devotes herself to organizing the industry's first unions. As the Koski siblings strive to rebuild lives and families in an America in flux, they also try to hold fast to the traditions of a home they left behind. Layered with fascinating historical detail, this is a novel that breathes deeply of the sun-dappled forest and bears witness to the stump-ridden fields the loggers, and the first waves of modernity, leave behind. At its heart, Deep River is an ambitious and timely exploration of the place of the individual, and of the immigrant, in an America still in the process of defining its own identity"--
650 0 _aEmigration and immigration
_zUnited States
_vFiction.
_914455
650 0 _aFinnish Americans
_vFiction.
_914456
650 0 _aFrontier and pioneer life
_zWashington (State)
_vFiction.
_914457
910 _a1562
942 _cBK
999 _c1105
_d1105