
Deep River
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Bronson Pinchot
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By:
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Karl Marlantes
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 book's 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.
A Publishers Weekly Pick of Top Ten Books of Spring.
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Critic reviews
"Bronson Pinchot delivers this sprawling, incandescent historical novel. His performance gives the mostly immigrant Finns' lives veracity and dignity.... Pinchot's twin gifts - an extraordinary ear for language and an actor's nuanced delivery - enliven the prose." (AudioFile Magazine)
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Outstanding
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Great Storytelling!
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The characters are full and well developed. I began to care for each of them right from the start, and the authors writing style is engaging and easy to follow. I also think the narrator did an excellent job.
I would recommend this book to historical fiction fans, as well as those who just love a great story.
Enthralling Tale
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Great saga based in history
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Very engaging story
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Excellent
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Good story but REALLY LONG
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Just plain wonderful!!!
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That said, the setting and time period come alive, with wonderful details on the labor unrest of the early twentieth century, the difficulties faced by immigrants, the politics and intolerance of that era, and the logging and fishing industries in the Pacific Northwest. I sometimes wanted to shake the flawed main character, but many of the secondary characters are well-drawn and interesting.
Expected more grittiness...
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Pulitzer candidate
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