The River King
by:
Alice Hoffman (author)
From the best-selling author of The Dovekeepers, The River King confirms Alice Hoffman as "one of our quirkiest and most interesting novelists" (Jane Smiley, USA Today).People tend to stay in their place in the town of Haddan. The students at the prestigious prep school don't mix with locals;...
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From the best-selling author of The Dovekeepers, The River King confirms Alice Hoffman as "one of our quirkiest and most interesting novelists" (Jane Smiley, USA Today).People tend to stay in their place in the town of Haddan. The students at the prestigious prep school don't mix with locals; even within the school, hierarchy rules, as freshman and faculty members find out where they fit in and what is expected of them. But when a body is found in the river behind the school, a local policeman will walk into this enclosed world and upset it entirely. A story of surface appearances and the truths submerged below.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780425179673 (0425179672)
ASIN: 425179672
Publish date: July 1st 2001
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Pages no: 344
Edition language: English
As soon as I started "The River King" I was smiling at having found something distinctive and wonderful. I luxuriated in surrendering myself into the hands of a dryly witty, joyfully articulate and completely omniscient narrator who curated my journey through the lives of a small group of people a...
This was a nice summer novel; light on plot, most of which we've seen elsewhere but Hoffman breathes new life into tired tropes with great characters. Gus and Carlyn (I listened to the audio edition and don't know the spellings of the names) are newcomers to the Haddon school, both from much ...
Beautiful, sad story. I'm still sad for most of the characters.
It took me a while to really get into this one, there were some parts that dragged a bit, but the magical realism (somewhat) makes up for what it's lacking. Hoffman spells out the affluent side of Massachusetts to a tee; I almost felt like I was there... oh wait, I am in Mass, so nevermind. I guess ...
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