Title: A Perfect Example of Bloated Modern Prose
Product review: I have not read anything else by Guterson before this novel and was not familiar with his acclaim for Snow Falling on Cedars. I was ready to enjoy this novel. Guterson does great work in the first chapter to create an interesting scenario with a possibility of a vivid look at the difficulty of being religious in a postmodern society. The writing quickly turns to the bloated, repetitive prose of which many contemporary writers have been accused. There are numerous paragraphs in the text in which he rephrases the same concept over and over again within in the same sentence and throughout paragraphs. I fear for American literature if Guterson represent the new tastes of literature. Long-winded is not literary.
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