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Rain on the River
Jim Dodge
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Description for Rain on the River
Paperback. This is fiction writer Jom Dodge's first collection of poems and short prose. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 196 x 10. Weight in Grams: 104.
Jim Dodge said he would consider publishing a volume of poetry if he lived to the millennium. Happily he did, and Rain on the River is the immediate result - work selected from his Tangram chapbooks, broadsides, and Solstice pieces, accompanied by three dozen new poems.
If you've enjoyed his fiction, Dodge's first collection of poems and short prose offer similar pleasures: a splendid ear for language, great emotional range and subtlety, a sharp eye for the illuminating detail, and a sensibility that encompasses outright hilarity, savage wit, and tender marvel - all made eminently accessible through writing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841952369
SKU
V9781841952369
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About Jim Dodge
Jim Dodge is the author of three novels - Fup, Not Fade Away and Stone Junction - and a collection so poetry and short prose, Rain on the River. He lives on an isolated ranch in western Sonoma County and has been by turns an apple picker, a carpet layer, a teacher, a professional gambler, a shepherd for five ... Read more
Reviews for Rain on the River
Dodge writes short, zen-like odes that are refreshingly accessible in their simplicity. . . Rain on the River proves that in addition to Dodge's amazing talent for plot, his use of language is unequalled.
Dazed and Confused
His writing is often as good as writing gets.
Literary Review
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Dazed and Confused
His writing is often as good as writing gets.
Literary Review
... Read more