David James Duncan




David James Duncan

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Portland, OR, The United States


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David James Duncan (born 1952)[1] is an American novelist and essayist, best known for his two bestselling novels, The River Why (1983, ISBN 1578050847) and The Brothers K (1992, ISBN 055337849x). Both involve fly fishing, baseball, and family.

Both received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers award; The Brothers K was a New York Times Notable Book in 1992 and won a Best Books Award from the American Library Association.[1]

Film adaptation
In 2008, The River Why was adapted into a "low-budget film" of the same name[2] starring William Hurt and Amber Heard.[3] Since April 30, 2008, the film rights to The River Why have become the subject of a lawsuit by Duncan alleging copyright infringement, among other is...more




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The Brothers K The Brothers K
by David James Duncan
avg rating 4.48 — 2,623 ratings — published 1996
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The River Why The River Why
by David James Duncan
avg rating 4.24 — 1,753 ratings — published 1983
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River Teeth River Teeth
by David James Duncan
avg rating 4.01 — 369 ratings — published 1995
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My Story as Told by Water: Con... My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark
by David James Duncan
avg rating 4.03 — 185 ratings — published 2001
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God Laughs & Plays: Churchless... God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
by David James Duncan
avg rating 4.10 — 143 ratings — published 2007
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Citizens Dissent: Security, Mo... Citizens Dissent: Security, Morality and Leadership in an Age of Terror
by Wendell Berry, David James Duncan
avg rating 4.31 — 29 ratings — published 2003
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Frank Boyden: The Empathies Frank Boyden: The Empathies
by David James Duncan, Kim Stafford
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2007
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El planeta negro El planeta negro
by David James Duncan
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 1964
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"Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength."
David James Duncan (The Brothers K)
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"We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence. "
David James Duncan
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"The Austrian writer Robert Musil summed up the Fanatic's great rhetorical advantage in just ten words:

There is no truth which stupidity can't make use of.

Another Austrian, novelist Heimito von Doderer, put this way:

Even the most impossible persons who do the most unforgivable things possess substantial reality; from their points of view they are always right – for let them only doubt that and they are no longer such impossible persons. And we must pay close heed to those who play such ungrateful roles, for these roles are indispensable. It is no small thing to be a monster or a spiteful idiot, and in the first case to think oneself beautiful, in the second a highly intelligent person. Such characters must be represented. Some one has to do it."
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