Gifted: A Novel
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Henry Fielder, solitary and unmoored in his thirties, runs into an old lover and finds himself ready to tell the story he has harbored for two decades. He is fifteen, in rural western Oregon, enduring a year of sorrows. His mother has died, his father is physically abusive, and his extraordinary spiritual affinity for the wild lives of his native country seems to desert him. An older couple, retiring to the area from California, offer solace and expanded cultural horizons but set him further at odds with his millworker father. The abuse escalates, and ultimately a natural disaster catalyzes a crisis in which father and son betray each other and Henry sets out on a trek through the backcountry of the Oregon Coast Range, seeking to understand what has happened and to forge a new sense of self.
A Huck Finn of the modern age, Henry is portrayed with a directness and clarity that pulls readers through the environmental dynamics of the Pacific Northwest. In stark yet beautiful prose that highlights his long tenure as a nature writer, Daniel creates an odyssey that explores the spiritual dimensions and deeply entangled pains and pleasures of belonging to the human domain and the natural world of which it is part.
Set in the mid–1990s, when environmentalists and timber communities warred over the future of the last Northwestern old–growth forests, Gifted is the story of a young man with a metaphysical imagination—naïve yet wise, gifted yet ordinary—who comes of age under harsh circumstances, negotiating the wildness of his home country, of his human relationships, and of the emerging complexities of his own being.
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- bioText: John Daniel's books of prose, including Rogue River Journal and The Far Corner, have won three Oregon Book Awards for Literary Nonfiction, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and have been supported by a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts among other grants and awards. His essays and poems have appeared in Wilderness Magazine, Orion, Sierra, Terrain.org, The North American Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and other journals and anthologies. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, he has taught as a writer–in–residence at colleges and universities across the country. Earlier in life he was a logger, hod carrier, railroader, and rock–climbing instructor. Daniel lives with his wife, Marilyn Daniel, in the Coast Range foothills west of Eugene, Oregon.
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- "[A] remarkable story." —The New York Times Book Review
Henry Fielder, solitary and unmoored in his thirties, runs into an old lover and finds himself ready to tell the story he has harbored for two decades. He is fifteen, in rural western Oregon, enduring a year of sorrows. His mother has died, his father is physically abusive, and his extraordinary spiritual affinity for the wild lives of his native country seems to desert him. An older couple, retiring to the area from California, offer solace and expanded cultural horizons but set him further at odds with his millworker father. The abuse escalates, and ultimately a natural disaster catalyzes a crisis in which father and son betray each other and Henry sets out on a trek through the backcountry of the Oregon Coast Range, seeking to understand what has happened and to forge a new sense of self.
A Huck Finn of the modern age, Henry is portrayed with a directness and clarity that pulls readers through the environmental dynamics of the Pacific Northwest. In stark yet beautiful prose that highlights his long tenure as a nature writer, Daniel creates an odyssey that explores the spiritual dimensions and deeply entangled pains and pleasures of belonging to the human domain and the natural world of which it is part.
Set in the mid–1990s, when environmentalists and timber communities warred over the future of the last Northwestern old–growth forests, Gifted is the story of a young man with a metaphysical imagination—naïve yet wise, gifted yet ordinary—who comes of age under harsh circumstances, negotiating the wildness of his home country, of his human relationships, and of the emerging complexities of his own being. - reviews
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- content: "I take John Daniel's Gifted as personally as my own Willamette Valley boyhood. Henry Fielder brought back 1,247 things I've lived. The joys and sorrows of full sensory immersion in an astoundingly beautiful, grievously wounded place. Being fed by both the beauty and the woundings. Coming of age, or trying to, in an industrial anti-culture that sees the adoration of trilliums, ancient trees, wild places, and early mystical experience as alienation." When Henry finally set down his pen I experienced a small miracle: the teen in me bowing, feeling completely understood and vindicated, half a century after the fact."
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- content: "Lyrical evocations of nature clash with shocking revelations of human nature in this coming-of-age story.... [A] stroll through the wilderness of adolescence and the Oregon woods."
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- source: Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, editor of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
- content: "Daniel captures Henry's feeling of isolation and loneliness with eloquent prose that draws readers into the mossy old-growth forests of the Northwest. His clean descriptions and comforting digressions about the landscape mirror Henry's own attempts to find solace in an unjust, confusing world. Daniel's impressive novel quietly builds, ending in a place where Henry can see the way past his experiences into a much more beautiful, logical future."
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February 20, 2017
Henry Fielder is having trouble telling his story, until, after years repressing many of his childhood memories, a chance encounter with a former lover inspires him. From rural Oregon logging country, Henry grew up with a strong bond to the natural world. After his mother fell ill and passed away in a nursing home, Henry’s father became increasingly isolationist and erratic, occasionally physically abusing Henry. In order to deal with his difficult life at home, Henry turned toward the natural beauty of Oregon and eventually met Carter Stephens and his wife, urban transplants who introduced him to conservation and environmental activism. To cope with his abusive father, Henry started drinking and smoking pot at age 15; one night, after catching his son inebriated, Henry’s father took the abuse to a new horrific level. Daniel captures Henry’s feeling of isolation and loneliness with eloquent prose that draws readers into the mossy old-growth forests of the Northwest. His clean descriptions and comforting digressions about the landscape mirror Henry’s own attempts to find solace in an unjust, confusing world. Daniel’s impressive novel quietly builds, ending in a place where Henry can see the way past his experiences into a much more beautiful, logical future.
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Lyrical evocations of nature clash with shocking revelations of human nature in this coming-of-age story set in and around the deep woods of western Oregon in the 1990s.At the age of 35, Henry Fielder runs into a former lover who persuades him to write down the events that occurred when he was 15, so except for this brief framing device, the novel is a lengthy flashback to Henry's adolescence. It was not a happy time, for Henry's mother had recently died of cancer and his father dealt with this loss through anger and physical abuse. Henry's one refuge was the forest, and the "gift" of the title refers to his feeling at one with the flora and fauna of the natural world. But in the mid-'90s, feelings ran high about the fate of this world. Loggers want to thin the old growth forests (one T-shirt reads "Cream of Spotted Owl Soup"), and environmental activists move in to try to prevent this culling from happening. Henry meets Cart and Josie, two of these activists (or "enviros," as loggers refer to them), and they start to sway Henry's opinion about which is the right side to be on. After a particularly traumatic incident involving Henry's father, an earthquake and storm cause tremendous damage. Henry takes off for several days alone in the woods and comes across a commune, the Sweet Grass Confederacy, where he finds a sympathetic hearing for what is becoming an overwhelming emotional and psychological situation. Throughout the novel Daniel emphasizes Henry's ambivalence about his life, especially his love for his mother versus his fear of and contempt for his father. An insightful though rambling stroll through the wilderness of adolescence and the Oregon woods.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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