![]() ![]() And the attorney is clearly modeled on Guterson’s father, a distinguished criminal defense attorney, whose outlook toward life and real-life cases are shared by his fictional counterpart. This is Guterson’s first novel in a decade. The narrator is a novelist who has not written fiction for years. The narrator is definitely aware of our presence as Guterson deliberately blurs the lines between fiction and reality. “The word ‘maudlin’ shows up two or three times just to show the narrator is aware he’s on the edge of it.” “I wanted it to be reflective without wallowing, and it’s a fine line to walk,” Guterson said in a recent phone interview. ![]() ![]() Sign up for our free newsletter about books, authors, reading and more.The Book Pages: Starting a new year of reading □.Joyce Carol Oates talks Marilyn Monroe clones and more in ‘Night, Neon’ story collection.‘Orphan Train’ author Christina Baker Kline talks book party with Kristin Hannah and Elin Hilderbrand.Viet Thanh Nguyen describes turning to crime for new novel ‘The Committed’.The case often seems secondary as the attorney and his son – who now must drive his father to work each day, and who narrates the story – take stock of their lives. Guterson’s latest novel, his sixth, is more haunting and elegiac. An aging attorney named Royal agrees to defend the mother even though he finds everything about her distasteful.Īt first glance, this may sound like it bears resemblance to Guterson’s debut novel from 1994, the award-winning, best-seller “Snow Falling on Cedars.” But that book was a taut drama structured around the crime and the case. In David Guterson’s new novel, “The Final Case,” a White fundamentalist couple from outside Seattle is charged with abuse and the murder of the daughter they adopted from Ethiopia. ![]()
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