Every fiction writer tells stories, but Charles Frazier is a storyteller. Frazier places the reader directly in the middle of the story, utilizing all of the senses to develop his characters and settings. My only gripes would be 1) the scene in which a bear tears through Bud's camp but he miraculously survives (this added nothing to the story) and 2) Frazier overcooks the sunset descriptions a little too often.
