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Title Statement | Rivers / Martin Michael Driessen ; translated by Jonathan Reeder. |
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Author | Driessen, Martin Michael, 1954- |
Additional Contributors | Reeder, Jonathan |
Publication | Seattle: Amazon Crossing,2018. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 180 pages ; |
ISBN | 1503901262 9781503901261 |
Other Number | 3462580 |
General Notes | Translated from the Dutch as: Riveren. |
Contents | Fleuve Sauvage; all comes to naught -- Voyage to the moon; life is a dream -- Pierre and Adele; he shall be purified by fire, water, air, and earth. |
Summary | A critically acclaimed, award-winning collection drawing sparkling prose from the inspiration of three rivers passing through different times and places. On the storm-swollen Aisne in northeastern France, an alcoholic actor combats both his demons and nature's tempests. Along the Main and Rhine in Germany, a kindhearted logger has but one wish: to travel with the lumber from his small Franconian hometown to the end of the river in the Netherlands, where it feeds into the majestic North Sea. In a bucolic vale in the French region of Brittany, two families, divided by religion and an unnamed stream, sustain a centuries-old feud, their resolve no match for the constantly shifting flow of water. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Alcoholics--Fiction |
Loggers--Fiction | |
Families--Fiction | |
Rivers--Fiction | |
By Location | Germany--Fiction |
Brittany (France)--Fiction | |
France--Fiction |