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Fiction Family Life

This River Awakens

by (author) Steven Erikson

Publisher
Tor/Forge
Initial publish date
Jul 2013
Category
Family Life
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780765370235
    Publish Date
    Jul 2014
    List Price
    $10.99
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780765334992
    Publish Date
    Jul 2013
    List Price
    $30.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780765335005
    Publish Date
    Jul 2013
    List Price
    $17.99

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Description

From the acclaimed author of the Malazan series comes Steven Erikson'sThis River Awakens.
In the spring of 1971, Owen Brand and his family move to the riverside town of Middlecross in a renewed attempt to escape poverty. For twelve-year-old Owen, it's the opportunity for a new life and an end to his family's isolation. He quickly falls in with a gang of three local boys and forms a strong bond with Jennifer, the rebellious daughter of a violent, alcoholic father. As summer brings release from school, two figures preside over the boys' activities: Walter Gribbs, a benign old watchman at the yacht club, and Hodgson Fisk, a vindictive farmer tormented by his past. Then the boys stumble on a body washed up on the riverbank—a discovery whose reverberations will result, as the year comes full circle, in a cataclysm that envelops them all….

About the author

Steven Erikson is a New York Times bestselling author renown for writing The Malazan Book of the Fallen, a ten-volume series that has sold millions of copies worldwide and is recognized as number two of the top 10 fantasy books by Fantasy Book Review and one of 30 best fantasy series of all time by Paste Magazine. He is a trained archaeologist and anthropologist who has published over twenty books, most of which explore notions of privilege, power hierarchies, and the rise and fall of civilizations, or take the piss out of the same. Erikson has been nominated for the Locus Award four times and the World Fantasy Award twice. His next novel Rejoice, a Knife to the Heart, is an SF First Contact story, due out in October, 2018. He lives in Victoria, B.C. with his lovely wife Clare.

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Editorial Reviews

“Wonderful and intimately evoked... A writer of real imaginative force and breadth.” —The Times Literary Supplement