East of the Mountains by David Guterson

East of the Mountains by David Guterson is a 279-page hardcover published in 1999 by Harcourt Brace & Company, and is a stated first edition. The dust jacket has the lightest surface wear.  Inside, the book has two tiny stains to the green cover.  The pages are clean and pristine and the binding is tight and square.  The condition is very good.  Book Summary It is mid-October, 1997, harvest time in the Columbia basic on central Washington state, a rich apple- and pear-growing region.  Ben Givens, recently widowed, is a retired heart surgeon, once admired for his steadiness of hand, his precision, his endurance.  He has terminal colon cancer.  While Ben does not readily accept defeat, he is determined to avoid suffering rather than engage in it.  And so, accompanied by his two hunting dogs, he sets out through the mythic American West--sage deserts, yawning canyons, dusty ranches, vast orchards--on his last hunt. The main issues for Ben as a doctor had been tactical and so it would