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Deep river : a novel
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- ISBN: 9780802125385
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Physical Description:
print
regular print
724 pages : maps ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
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| Subject: | Finnish Americans -- Fiction Frontier and pioneer life -- Washington (State) -- Fiction Emigration and immigration -- United States -- Fiction |
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- 4 of 5 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Nelson Public Library | F MAR (Text) | 3514830031238 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Tumbler Ridge Public Library | AF MARLA (Text) | TRL26705 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Quesnel Branch | MAR (Text) | 33923006122075 | Historical | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-04-24 |
| Sechelt Public Library | F MARL (Text) | 33260100035097 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Trail and District Public Library Main Branch | F MAR (Text) | 35110001006879 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Forced from their home by Russian imperialism, three Finnish siblings find their new lives in the Pacific Northwest challenged by the rapid development and labor movements of the early 20th-century logging industry. By the best-selling author of Matterhorn. - Baker & Taylor
"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"-- - Baker & Taylor
In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the Koski siblings--Ilmari, Matti, and the politicized young Aino--flee to the U.S., settling in a logging community in southern Washington. - Perseus Publishing
Karl Marlantesâs 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 storytellingâthe family epicâto craft a stunningly expansive narrative of human suffering, courage, and reinvention.
In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russiaâs imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblingsâIlmari, Matti, and the politicized young Ainoâare 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 wildernessâclimbing and felling trees one-hundred meters highâwhile Aino, foremost of the books many strong, independent women, devotes herself to organizing the industryâs 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. - Perseus Publishing
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War, a rich family saga about Finnish immigrants who settle and tame the Pacific Northwest, set against the early labor movements, World War I, and the upheaval of early twentieth-century America
