Dr. Ben Givens sets out from Seattle to return to his homeland in the apple orchards east of the mountains. Old and ill, he takes nothing with him but his hunting dogs, his father's old gun and his intention to end his life. His journey becomes an odyssey in which, after a series of extraordinary adventures, some very bloody, he learns a kind of acceptance. Harrowing but lyrical too and in the end life affirming.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 5 October 2000 ) |
