Snow Falling on Bullshit; Nature, Nasal Drip, and So Forth; Our Lady of the Forest by David Guterson

From: The Stranger | Date: November 12, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

THE CONCEIT OF setting-as-character is all too familiar in literature of the Pacific Northwest, as book after book favors us with automobile tires on wet pavement, precipitation upon trees, and so forth. It is not innately ill-conceived, this personification; our region's heaviness, applied judiciously and pointedly, can deepen a story. Applied heavily and bluntly, the device is not only somewhat painful, it can perversely illumine the fact that the characters-as-characters have been clumsily deployed into the setting-as-character, and that the whole mess is just sitting there getting wet.

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