This River Awakens

By: Steven Erikson

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Paperback | 2 January 2013 | Edition Number 1

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528 Pages

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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 and 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 Hogdson 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 envelopes tyhem all...Steven Erikson first novel, This River Awakens, is a lyrical, tender and disturbing portrayal of a rite of passage that is both harsh and revelatory.

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Wonderfully and intimately evoked...a writer of real imaginative force and breadth. -- Paul Binding * THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *
Startlingly real...it is remarkable for a first novel. -- Margaret Forster
An excellent novel...a terrific new talent. * GLOBE AND MAIL *

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