FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, MAY 1996

Copyright © 1989 by David Guterson

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in the United States in hardcover by Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., New York, in 1989.

The following stories have been previously published: “Opening Day” in Sports Illustrated under the title “When the Hunt is Done”; “Wood Grouse on a High Promontory Overlooking Canada” in Washington Magazine; “Three Hunters” in The Iowa Review; “American Elm” in The Seattle Review; and “The Flower Garden” in Prairie Schooner.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Guterson, David.
The country ahead of us, the country behind : stories / by
David Guterson. — 1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
p. cm. — (Vintage contemporaries)
eISBN: 978-0-307-78909-9
1. Northwest, Pacific—Social life and customs—Fiction.
I. Title.
[PS3557.U846C48 1995]
813′.54—dc20 95-34665

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