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Law, Legal History

Snow Falling on Cedars

by David Guterson
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Synopsis

Celebrating the upcoming motion picture from Universal Pictures starring Ethan Hawke and directed by Scott Hicks (Shine) is a special hardcover edition of the international bestseller.

Time Magazine - Randall Short

This book "chronicles a lawsuit brought in 1986 by eight families in Woburn, Massachusetts, against Beatrice Foods and W.R. Grace. The plaintiffs charged that toxic waste on properties owned by the giant corporations had infiltrated town drinking water and caused an outbreak of leukemia."

About the Author, David Guterson

David Guterson is a reader s writer, welcoming his audience into a story from the first sentence. The rich landscapes of the Pacific Northwest are home to many of Guterson s works of fiction, serving as emotional backdrops for deeply felt stories about the ways we deal with the most universal of questions.

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Book Details

Published
September 1, 1994
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780151001002

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