Brian Doyle
Brian Doyle (1956-2017) was the author of many books, including the novels Mink River and The Plover; The Grail, his account of a year in a pinot noir vineyard in Oregon; and The Wet Engine, a memoir about his infant son’s heart surgery and the young doctor who saved his life. He edited Portland Magazine at the University of Portland.
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Books by this Author
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Children and Other Wild Animals
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award In Children and Other Wild Animals, bestselling novelist Brian Doyle (Mink River, The Plover) describes encounters with astounding...
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The Wet Engine
“My son Liam was born nine years ago. He looked like a cucumber on steroids. He was fat and bald and round. He looked healthy...
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Mink River
2011 Foreword Reviews' Editor's Choice Prize for Fiction Lake Oswego's Everyone Reads selection Brian Doyle on Live Wire, taped at the live radio show on...
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The Grail
From the red clay hills of Dundee, Oregon, come increasingly world-renowned pinot noir wines. After being startled and delighted by one winery's elixir, and the...