This River Awakens - Hardcover

Críticas

"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)

Reseña del editor

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 envelops them 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.