Snow Falling on Cedars

By: Guterson, David

In 1954, Ishmael Chambers, a local reporter who lost an arm in the war, covers the murder trial of a Japanese-American fisherman, whose wife had been Ishmael's childhood sweetheart. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: School & Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0613014367
• ISBN13: 9780613014366
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Very descriptive, very, very descriptive, and descriptive.

By now, you know I think this book is very descriptive. They say this is very good for a first-timer. Maybe so. However, one trick writers use is to write a full background on each character to keep from having conflicts later and to help with keeping them from looking two-dimensional. Yet, it is not necessary to print the entire bio on someone before he/she even says "Hi." Some description of the environment fills out a picture. Too much description obscures the story like snow falling on cedars. Moreover, is O.K. to throw in a "red herring” now and then, to augment the clues. It is annoying to throw in tons of details that are not relevant to the story. If you like lots of fluff around your mystery and find the fluff more important than who-done-it, then you will like this book.