East of the mountains

By David Guterson

Subjects: Surgeons, Patients, Seattle (wash.), fiction, Colon (Anatomy), Cancer, Physicians, fiction, Fiction, Suicide, Reminiscing in old age, Fiction, psychological, Older men, Hunting accidents

Description: In Washington State, a widowed doctor suffering from cancer takes a hunting trip, the real purpose of which is to commit suicide, which he will masquerade as an accident. But Dr. Ben Givens' resolve is tested by several events which reaffirm the joy of living--he cheats death by fighting off wolves and helps a girl give birth.