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In a small fictional town on the Oregon coast there are love affairs and almost-love-affairs, mystery and hilarity, bears and tears, brawls and boats, a garrulous logger and a silent doctor, rain and pain, Irish immigrants and Salish stories, mud and laughter. There's a Department of Public Works that gives haircuts and counts insects, a policeman who is addicted to Puccini, a philosophizing crow, beer, and berries. An expedition is mounted, a crime is committed, and there's an unbelievably huge picnic on the football field. Babies are born. A car is cut in half with a saw. A river confesses what it's thinking. This is the tale of a town, written in a distinct and lyrical voice, and when the book ends, listeners will be more than a little sad to leave the village of Neawanaka, on the wet coast of Oregon, beneath the hills that used to boast the biggest trees in the history of the world.

©2010 Brian Doyle (P)2014 Tantor Media Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Fiction Oregon

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"Doyle writes with an inventive and seductive style that echoes that of ancient storytellers." ( Library Journal Starred Review
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The late Brian Doyle was a story teller par exellence, someone who brought to life the land, it's inhabitants of all species with humour, respect and superb craftsmanship. I never tire of listening or reading his work and I think Mink River is a jewel, one to be read in schools, in libraries and book groups. David Drummond is the perfect narrator, able to inhabit men, women, children of all ages, cultures and backgrounds, even the rivers sing in his voice and the magnificent Crow is so well articulated that he is as vital to the narrative as the leading players. What a gift, a legacy Brian Doyle left us and especially the Pacific North West of the USA.

A book for all generations, a book to be treasured

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This was a strange wee story, but great. It was going along fine as a plain old fiction novel, where the inhabitants of a coastal town are struggling economically then dipped into fantasy as the residents spoke to and related with a crow called Moses.

The majority of the town are Irish/Native American Indian and there were great wee legends from each culture. There was a disturbing miscarriage scene but that didn't spoil the novel as a whole.

Life and death in a small town

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Few writers make me snort laugh and well up in the same sentence quite like this beautiful man

Everything Bryan Doyle wrote was perfection

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