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East of the Mountains

By: David Guterson
Narrated by: Peter Marinker
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Summary

Ben Given's wife has died, he, a heart surgeon, is unwell and life for him is not worth living. He sets off into the wilds bent on dying out there only to find himself caught up in an eye-opening, life-enhancing diversion.
©2014 Audible, Inc.; 1999 David Guterson
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First rate novel about a man facing death

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Don't be put off by the subject. It is about a man facing death but full of positive spirit and more about life than death. Other than the shocking beginning, the book is never depressing. I preferred Snow on Cedars, by the same author narrator pair, but this is still a fine novel and deserves 5 stars.

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Beautiful & informative

I was drawn to the.central character of a sick man, a doctor, facing ageing and death. This beautifully written novel gave me so much more. Descriptive writing that had me standing alongside Ben. As a child among apple orchards in the western U.S.. As an army recruit and alpine soldier in Italy in WW2, and the incident that made him decide to be a doctor. A loving marriage. And his journey of despair after his wife’s death and cancer diagnosis. Travelling with him as the despair morphed. into a journey of redemption, acceptance and peace.
Beautifully narrated.
I thoroughly recommend this unabridged audible version of East of the Mountains.

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A touching end of life story

An illuminating descriptive life story by a gifted author,sympathetically read.
I have listened twice.

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