**From the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalistan odyssey of a novel about a girl's search for love and identity.** Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifl
Once Upon a River
β Scribed by Bonnie Jo Campbell
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 280 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
"A demonstration of outstanding skills on the river of American literature." --Entertainment Weekly "Bonnie Jo Campbell has built her new novel like a modern-day craftsman from the old timbers of our national myths about loners living off the land, rugged tales as perilous as they are alluring. Without sacrificing any of its originality, this story comes bearing the saw marks of classic American literature, the rough-hewn sister of The Leatherstocking Tales , The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , and Walden."--Ron Charles, Washington Post
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