In the River Sweet
$37.60
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2004
Summary
National Book Award finalist Patricia Henley captivates us with this engrossing novel of a woman whose long-held secret will transform her life and her marriage.
From all appearances, Ruth Anne Bond is enviably lucky. Her husband, Johnny, still treats her like a young lover. Her grown daughter is a staunch friend. Her steady work and devotion to the church have quietly made her a pillar of the community.
Then one long Indiana summer brings some unexpected communiques-including…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385721325 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0385721323 |
| Author: | Patricia Henley |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Anchor Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2004 |
| Weight: | 235g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 130mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
“Emotionally rich… . Nuanced… . Voluptuous… . A true accomplishment in the craft of fiction.” —Chicago Tribune
“Absolutely superb… . With a poet’s eye for the essential and a novelists’s sweeping vision … Patricia Henley iluminates here the wounds and yearnings of us all.” —Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog
“Beautifully rendered… . An absorbing story.” —The Boston Globe
“Sure to please readers deeply… . Henley conjures the bygone Vietnam era with eerie and bittersweet poignancy.” —The Dallas Morning News
“An atmospheric and involving drama of family, belief and moral quandaries.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Patricia Henley
Patricia Henley’s first novel, Hummingbird House, was a finalist for the 1999 National Book Award and The New Yorker Best Fiction Book Award. Henley has also written two books of poetry, Learning to Die and Back Roads, and four story collections- Friday Night at Silver Star, which won the 1985 Montana Arts Council First Book Award; The Secret of Cartwheels; Worship of the Common Heart- New and Selected Stories; and Other Heartbreaks. Her stories have been published in such magazines as The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and Northwest Review, and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize anthology. For 27 years she taught in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Purdue University. She lives in Frostburg, Maryland.
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