Lee, despite being his half brother, serves as a foil to protagonist and travels from Hartford, where he is a graduate student at Yale, back to Wakonda, the fictional (*) Oregon setting, because his family needs more people to cut timber.
In one scene of this novel, a character reads a page of the Bible and proceeds to use it as toilet paper. A minor character is Teddy, the bartender of the Snag, who always seems to do good business when the weather is bad. Beginning and ending on Thanksgiving of 1961, it follows generations of a family whose patriarch's motto is "Never Give an Inch!" Lee, despite being his half brother, serves as a foil to protagonist and travels from Hartford, where he is a graduate student at Yale, back to Wakonda, the fictional (*) Oregon setting, because his family needs more people to cut timber. However, Lee's intentions are to get revenge on his brother, who slept with Lee's mother Myra, by seducing his wife, Viv. The introduction of the chainsaw in part causes the strike that pits the union members against the Stamper family, who own the local sawmill. Hank is the main character of, for 10 points, what story called "the quintessential northwest novel", the second book by Ken Kesey that takes it title from a line of the song "Goodnight, Irene"?
In one scene of this novel, a character reads a page of the Bible and proceeds to use it as toilet paper.
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