This River Awakens - Softcover

Steven Erikson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 085750066X ISBN 13: 9780857500663

Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group), 2013

Synopsis

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.\nA time to escape. Twelve-year-old Owen Brand and his family move to Middlecross, a riverside town in rural Canada, hoping to leave poverty and unhappiness behind. A time for innocence Owen meets three local boys, and they soon form an inseparable band. Over the summer holidays they create their own world, a place apart from the adults who watch over them. Owen also grows close to Jennifer, a fascinating but deeply troubled girl. And a time to grow up. Then the gang stumble across a body in the river - a discovery with unimaginable consequences for them and the town, from which there is no going back.

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About the Author

Archaeologist and anthropologist STEVEN ERIKSON's debut fantasy novel, Gardens of the Moon, was short-listed for the World Fantasy Award and introduced fantasy readers to his epic Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence, which has been hailed "a masterwork of the imagination." This River Awakens was his first novel, and originally published under the name Steve Lundin. He lives in Cornwall, England.

From Booklist

When 12-year-old Owen’s family moves from the city to the country in search of a new life, the boy forms a sometimes tentative friendship with three local boys: stalwart Roland, hapless Carl, and Lynk, who is “full of ascendant visions.” The boys’ lives will change when they discover a corpse in an area river and decide, for reasons that seem somewhat murky, to keep their discovery a secret. Secrets, in fact, play a very large role in this ambitious novel. In the meantime, readers meet three adults whose lives will intersect those of the boys: a mink farmer, an alcoholic parent, and a kindly caretaker. There is a great deal of material in this exceedingly long and sometimes dense and relentlessly dark novel, enough for two or even three books. This excess sometimes tests the reader’s patience, as does an overabundance of symbology—the river, the corpse, a nonfunctioning machine, a secret room, and more. Though not for every reader, the book will be redeemed for many by a cast of interesting characters and a degree of suspense about their respective fates. --Michael Cart

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 085750066X
• ISBN 13: 9780857500663
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 528