This free community presentation will be held at BPA (200 Madison Ave. He will share these, along with reflections on how the book was written, before a matinee performance of the play. Reading “Snow Falling on Cedars” some 20 years later, Guterson said he encountered an unexpected mixture of emotions. Ironically, it is his novel that is now showing up in high school curricula – where it hasn’t been banned, of course. Guterson, then 39, received the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award for “Snow Falling on Cedars” - a remarkable achievement for a first novel.Įven more remarkable was the fact that it went on to be not only a critical but also a commercial success, with over 4 million copies sold, it has generated a Hollywood film, a stage play and countless high school student essays. It was, in fact, modeled on Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the 1960 novel Guterson regularly assigned to his high school English classes. The literary model for the book, however, was more remote.
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