The Other, by David Guterson
My life as a middle-class English teacher with a wife and two kids would have been poetically mundane if not for “the hermit of the Hoh” in literary novel THE OTHER. Fellow Seattleite John William and I first met as high school track competitors. Thirty-five years later, thanks to his will, they call me, Neil Countryman, “the four-hundred-forty-million-dollar man.” Because I trekked for miles through the snow to bring him books he disdained to read and food he gobbled from bare hands? Maybe. But I suspect it’s because he felt I was the only person who ever truly loved him.
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NOTE: The above is a sample pitch I wrote for instructional purposes only. This “pitch” was written after the book was published and was never used by the author or anyone else to actually pitch a book.
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