![]() ![]() Sounds… er, delightful? At least Guterson is getting us amply prepared for a wet, depressing ride. On winter evenings it roared in sheets against the pavements and made Amity Harbor invisible" (1.9). As we've already discussed elsewhere (see " Symbols"), weather is kind of a big deal in this novel, symbolically and plot-wise, and we definitely get that sense early on in Guterson's descriptions of the landscape: "Rain, the spirit of the place, patiently beat down everything man-made. San Piedro is described as "an island of five thousand damp souls" (1.7), and Amity Harbor as "an eccentric, rainy, wind-beaten sea village, downtrodden and mildewed" (1.9). Set in 1954, almost a decade after the end of World War II, the story takes place on the fictional island of San Piedro in Washington state, whose only town is Amity Harbor. Amity Harbor, San Piedro Island (fictional), Washington State ![]()
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