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In 1954, Ishmael Chambers, a local reporter who lost an arm in the war, covers the murder trial of a Japanese American fisherman, whose wife had been Ishmael's childhood sweetheart

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Main Author: Guterson, David
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 1995.
Edition:1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
Series:Vintage contemporaries
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Japanese Americans > Fiction.
Trials (Murder) > Fiction.
Journalists > Fiction.
Washington (State) > Fiction.
Legal stories > Washington (State).
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Summary:In 1954, Ishmael Chambers, a local reporter who lost an arm in the war, covers the murder trial of a Japanese American fisherman, whose wife had been Ishmael's childhood sweetheart
Physical Description:xiii, 460 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
ISBN:067976402X
Author Notes:David Guterson was born in Seattle and later graduated from the University of Washington. Before becoming a full-time writer, Guterson was a high school English teacher and a contributing editor for Harper's Magazine.

Guterson has published The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind, a collection of short stories, and Family Matters: Why Home Schooling Makes Sense, a nonfiction book. Snow Falling on Cedars is Guterson's most famous work; it has won the Pen/Faulkner Award and was an American Booksellers Book of the Year Nominee.

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