The Living (Magill Book Reviews)

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In her first novel, THE LIVING, Annie Dillard traces the interconnected lives of five pioneer families who settled in Whatcom, on Bellingham Bay, ninety miles north of Seattle, in Washington state. Most of Dillard’s characters—the Fishburns, the Sharps, the Irelands, the Honers, and the Obenchains—are fictional, but she introduces some historical characters as well, notably Jim Hill and Frederick Weyerhaeuser.

THE LIVING captures the spirit of the first generation of settlement in the Pacific Northwest from about 1855 through 1897. The early Northwest settlers were hopeful...

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