The Patience of Rivers
A Novel
New York : W.W. Norton, [2003]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 351 pages ; 25 cm
An irresistible novel about an upstate New York river community and a never-to-be-forgotten summer of change. It's the summer of 1969, and it feels like the rules have been suspended. The Woodstock festival is revving up at a neighbor's farm, the rock-and-roll culture is in full swing, astronauts are landing on the moon, and young men make plans to go to college . . . or to war. As eighteen-year-old Nick Lauria works the family campgrounds and leads canoe trips on the Delaware River, he feels the sting of first love and the fear-turned-pain of his friend's letters from Vietnam. His parents, meanwhile, struggle to keep the family business-and themselves-intact against the blandishments and secret dealings of their business partner. This is a novel of events on the verge. By turns boisterous and tender, sprawling and deeply familiar, its center is a world of young people growing up, a family falling apart, and a sun-dappled town in its final years before development arrives.
Subjects:
Family-owned business enterprises -- Fiction.
Camp sites, facilities, etc. -- Fiction.
Canoes and canoeing -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- Fiction.
New York (State) -- Fiction.
Family-owned business enterprises -- Fiction.
Camp sites, facilities, etc. -- Fiction.
Canoes and canoeing -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- Fiction.
New York (State) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0393051765
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F Freda | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |