Mink River

By: Brian Doyle

Narrated by: David Drummond

In a small fictional town on the Oregon coast there are love affairs and almost-love-affairs, mystery and hilarity, bears and tears, brawls and boats, a garrulous logger and a silent doctor, rain and pain, Irish immigrants and Salish stories, mud and laughter. There's a Department of Public Works that gives haircuts and counts insects, a policeman who is addicted to Puccini, a philosophizing crow, beer, and berries. An expedition is mounted, a crime is committed, and there's an unbelievably huge picnic on the football field. Babies are born. A car is cut in half with a saw. A river confesses what it's thinking. This is the tale of a town, written in a distinct and lyrical voice, and when the book ends, listeners will be more than a little sad to leave the village of Neawanaka, on the wet coast of Oregon, beneath the hills that used to boast the biggest trees in the history of the world.

©2010 Brian Doyle (P)2014 Tantor Media

Critic reviews

"Doyle writes with an inventive and seductive style that echoes that of ancient storytellers." ( Library Journal Starred Review

Gorgeous, Lyrical Writing

A poetic sampling of human, animal, and supernatural experiences among lives intertwined and lives independent of one another with no beginning or end

Mesmerizing

Such a unique style - I enjoyed it thoroughly! I will listen to it more than once!

The naturalist information

I liked so many things, the narrator, the natural world, the friendship with the crow.

Excellent

I read this book several years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. The audio book is even more enjoyable as the narrator is excellent, in my opinion. What a treat! Immersing myself in that tiny Oregon town with those amazing characters was a wonderful escape. I can see revisiting this book every few years which is something I rarely do. I will make a point of looking for other books by Brian Doyle. He left us much too soon, but what a legacy!

Mink River ~ A compassionate review of humanity - heart warming

I didn’t want this to end. An exquisite novel beautifully narrated - with heart humor and straight forward truth
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