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Description for The River
Paperback. This debut novel is a wonderful portrayal of how love has the power to reawaken and heal the grief of loss. Set in the small Devon village of Cameldip, it explores the effect that the drowning of two children has on a family and a community over almost half a century. Num Pages: 346 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 395. .
Tricia Wastvedt's debut novel, met with critical acclaim in England, is a hypnotically readable portrait of a community scarred, but eventually reawakened, by its grief. Two children drown during the summer of 1958 in the English village of Cameldip. Their parents, Isabel and Robert, are bound together in guilt and anger, and as the years pass, the tragedy weaves itself into the invisible fabric of village life. Robert, finding solace in labor, builds several tree houses that transform the look of the town, and as the years pass the structures grow entwined with other houses. It is thirty years after ... Read more
Tricia Wastvedt's debut novel, met with critical acclaim in England, is a hypnotically readable portrait of a community scarred, but eventually reawakened, by its grief. Two children drown during the summer of 1958 in the English village of Cameldip. Their parents, Isabel and Robert, are bound together in guilt and anger, and as the years pass, the tragedy weaves itself into the invisible fabric of village life. Robert, finding solace in labor, builds several tree houses that transform the look of the town, and as the years pass the structures grow entwined with other houses. It is thirty years after ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Black Cat New York
Number of pages
346
Condition
Used, Like New
1st Edition
Yes
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780802170071
SKU
KEX0211204
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
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