To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher "reality" of long, warm, pleasant summers. But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime.

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Guterson is best known as the author of Snow Falling on Cedars (1994) recipient of the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award. Currently he lives on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound and is a co-founder of Field's End an organization for writers. The film was directed by Scott Hicks and starred Ethan Hawke James Cromwell Sam Shepherd and Max von Sydow and went on to receive an Academy Award nomination for cinematography.

David Guterson (pron.