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This river awakens / Steven Erikson.
- Title
- This river awakens / Steven Erikson.
- Author
- Erikson, Steven
- Publication
- New York : Tor, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR9199.4.E745 T48 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 426 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In the spring of 1971, Owen Brand and his family move to the riverside town of Middlecross in a renewed attempt to escape poverty. For twelve-year-old Owen, it's the opportunity for a new life and an end to his family's isolation. He quickly falls in with a gang of three local boys and forms a strong bond with Jennifer, the rebellious daughter of a violent, alcoholic father. As summer brings release from school, two figures preside over the boys' activities: Walter Gribbs, a benign old watchman at the yacht club, and Hodgson Fisk, a vindictive farmer tormented by his past. Then the boys stumble on a body washed up on the riverbank--a discovery whose reverberations will result, as the year comes full circle, in a cataclysm that envelops them all.... Steven Erikson's first novel, This River Awakens, is a lyrical, tender, and disturbing portrayal of a rite of passage that is both harsh and revelatory. Published for the first time in the U.S., the acclaimed author of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series brings a coming-of-age tale that reads like Stand by Me reimagined by the Coen brothers. "--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Bildungsromans
- Note
- "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
- "Originally published in Great Britain by Hodder and Stoughton"--T.p. verso.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780765334992 (hardback)
- 0765334992 (hardback)
- 9780765335005 (trade paperback)
- 076533500X (trade paperback)
- 9781466819795 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2013006329
- OCLC
- 830681843
- SCSB-11781278
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library