The Island of Four Rivers - Softcover

Christopher Morgan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1920769900 ISBN 13: 9781920769901

Publisher: Scribe, 2006

Synopsis

The Davis family, a disparate group of people with nothing in common but their mutual dislike, have been brought together by a crisis. Bill Davis, the family patriarch, is desperately ill in hospital, felled by a stroke, and kept alive only by medical technology. His family - his embittered and passive wife Dot, his pedantic son Henry, and long-estranged daughter Eleanor - must decide together when to end his life. Meanwhile, another narrative emerges and asserts itself: intrepid explorer Crabby Davis ranges like a true swashbuckling Victorian gentleman through the wilds of the South Pacific, keeping a vivid diary as he goes. As the latter-day plight of the dysfunctional Davis family becomes more comically revealing under the pressure of having to make life-and-death decisions, so does the voyage of Crabby Davis become increasingly fantastical. When Crabby embarks on a final incredible quest to the source of the four rivers on his island, the voyage of the larger-than-life explorer and Bill Davis's final journey towards death dramatically intersect. In this remarkable debut novel, author Christopher Morgan deftly weaves the multiple narratives in a beguiling blend of the magical and the mundane. Paradoxical, spellbinding, and funny, The Island of Four Rivers is about living and dying, and the transforming power of love.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scribe
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1920769900
• ISBN 13: 9781920769901
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280