In a hurricane-ravaged Mississippi of the near future, a man who elects to remain behind when most people have fled the area is brutally attacked by two hitchhikers who steal his supplies, a crime that prompts him to pursue justice.
Eerily prophetic in its depiction of a Southern landscape ravaged by extreme weather, Rivers is a masterful tale of survival and redemption in a world where the next devastating storm is never far behind.“This is the kind of book that ...
In a hurricane-ravaged Mississippi of the near future, a man who elects to remain behind when most people have fled the area is brutally attacked by two hitchhikers who steal his supplies, a crime that prompts him to pursue justice.
A bold portrayal of the strains—and delights—of a forbidden relationship, All the Rivers (published in Israel as Borderlife) is a love story and a war story, a New York story and a Middle East story, an unflinching foray into the forces ...
Studies the ways in which American slaves were able to create and maintain their values by nurturing family patterns, artistic expression, and community structure
On a series of solitary walks around London, a woman recalls the rivers she's encountered in prose reminiscent of Sebald.
In 1835, after being turned out by his mean-spirited uncle, Chris Dahlberg decides to harvest some of the timber on his grandfather's land in Minnesota and float the giant logs down the Mississippi River to market in St. Louis.
What is a river?
Two secretive, lonely people desperately flee a clandestine agency with a hidden fascist agenda, pursued by an insidiously evil operative with full access to the vast resources of the government. Reprint.
"Soon to be major motion picture"--Cover.