West of Here

by Jonathan Evison

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Jonathan Evison opens his electrifying epic, West of Here, at the Elwha River dam, where over a hundred years since settlers of the fictional town of Port Bonita tamed the river, their descendants gather in anticipation of the dam's blasting, and a new era of restoration. Across the next five hundred pages, Evison's story moves between 2006 and the town's earliest days at the close of the 19th century, overlaying stories of the people who passed through or dug in at Port Bonita, which swelled from settlement to town on the ragged shoreline of Washington State's Strait of Juan...Read more
  • ISBN10 178033687X
  • ISBN13 9781780336879
  • Publish Date 1 January 1960
  • Publish Status Cancelled
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Imprint Corsair
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 544
  • Language English