The Other

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Seattle, 1972: two teenage boys are standing at the start line of an 800m race.
Neil Countryman is from the public high school in the north of the city. He slumps at his desk all day and gets high in the park at lunchtime, and wears
a moustache that makes him look like the guy in the Camel cigarette ads. John William Barry is from Lakeside, a priváté academy for the more privileged of Seattle's youth. He is an earnest, fiery young man, and his family background is one of material wealth and emotional deprivation.
As their lives collide for the very first time, it is the beginning of a friendship that is both fraught and intimate. Both boys have a taste for the wilderness, and they explore together the most remote areas of the mountains, the places ignored by guidebooks, where tracks and roads fade to nothing and all that can be seen is an endless, unbroken density of trees. But as they grow older, John
William's intense intelligence and craving for isolation mark him out as an... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Seattle, 1972: two teenage boys are standing at the start line of an 800m race.
Neil Countryman is from the public high school in the north of the city. He slumps at his desk all day and gets high in the park at lunchtime, and wears
a moustache that makes him look like the guy in the Camel cigarette ads. John William Barry is from Lakeside, a priváté academy for the more privileged of Seattle's youth. He is an earnest, fiery young man, and his family background is one of material wealth and emotional deprivation.
As their lives collide for the very first time, it is the beginning of a friendship that is both fraught and intimate. Both boys have a taste for the wilderness, and they explore together the most remote areas of the mountains, the places ignored by guidebooks, where tracks and roads fade to nothing and all that can be seen is an endless, unbroken density of trees. But as they grow older, John
William's intense intelligence and craving for isolation mark him out as an eccentric, and as Neil begins to accumulate the more conventional comforts -a wife, a steady job - their lives begin to take radically different paths.
Dávid Guterson is the author of the novels East of the Mountains, Our Lady of the Forest and Snow Falling on Cedars, winner of the PEN/ Faulkner Award. He lives in Washington State.
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