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Subject
Coming Of Age
Special Attributes
1st Edition, Signed
ISBN
9780393079890
Book Title
Once Upon a River
Item Length
9.6in
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Publication Year
2011
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.2in
Author
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Literary, Coming of Age
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
19.5 Oz
Number of Pages
348 Pages

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Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier. After the violent death of her father, in which she is complicit, Margo takes to the Stark River in her boat, with only a few supplies and a biography of Annie Oakley, in search of her vanished mother. But the river, Margo's childhood paradise, is a dangerous place for a young woman traveling alone, and she must be strong to survive, using her knowledge of the natural world and her ability to look unsparingly into the hearts of those around her. Her river odyssey through rural Michigan becomes a defining journey, one that leads her beyond self-preservation and to the decision of what price she is willing to pay for her choices.

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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393079899
ISBN-13
9780393079890
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99588461

Product Key Features

Book Title
Once Upon a River
Author
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
348 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
19.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3553.A43956o63
Reviews
With all the fixings of a Johnny Cash song--love, loss, redemption--Campbell captures these Michiganders and their earthy, brutal paradise in tales rich with insight and well worth the trip., Starred Review. A dramatic and rhapsodic American odyssey. A female Huckleberry Finn. A wild-child-to-caring-woman story as intricately meshed with the natural life of the river as a myth. ...she conveys all that Margo does, thinks, and feels with transfixing sensuous precision, from the jolt of a gun to the muscle burn of rowing a boat against the current to the weight of a man. From killing and skinning game to falling in with outlaws and finding refuge with kind if irascible strangers, Margo's earthy education and the profound complexities of her timeless dilemmas are exquisitely rendered and mesmerizingly suspenseful. A glorious novel destined to entrance and provoke., ...the book is a violent but inspiring tale packed with colorful river dwellers, a working-class community of power company and metal workers, farmers, hunters and housewives....Campbell has created a character with an iron gut and a heart to match, recalling powerful heroines like Clara of Joyce Carol Oates' A Garden of Earthly Delights and Ree of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone., American fiction waited a long time for Bonnie Jo Campbell to come along. A lot of us, not only women, were looking for a fictional heroine who would be deeply good, brave as a wolverine, never a cry baby, as able as Sacagawea, with a strong and unapologetic sexuality. We wanted to feel her roots in some ancient story, we wanted Diana the huntress, but not her virginity; we wanted a real human girl who we could believe had been suckled by bears, or wolves. To give us heroines like this, the god finally brought us Bonnie Jo Campbell, one of our most important and necessary writers, and Margo Crane, the central character of Once Upon A River, an outcast, feral beauty who can shoot like Annie Oakley, is her most poignant and mythic creation so far., Campbell is a bard, a full-throated singer whose melodies are odes to farms and water and livestock and fishing rods and rifles, and to hardworking folks who know the value of life as well as the randomness of life's troubles., It Is, Rather, an Excellent American Parable about the Consequences of Our Favorite Ideal, Freedom., Mark Twain owns America's rivers, and writers who venture out on those waters are obliged to acknowledge his dominion. Bonnie Jo Campbell's tough and confident Once Upon a River, about a runaway teenager on Michigan's waterways, pays due homage to the bard of the Mississippi, but the novel also tells its own captivating story
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2011-001499
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22

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  • by sp109
    Oct 02, 2019

    Great price for an excellent book

    Great price for an excellent book

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  • by 1resolver
    Mar 07, 2012

    Would have liked More adventure detailes, less sex.

    I would have liked to hear/know more about the wilderness adventures. More details. What is a cord of wood. How to skin, trap, walk in the woods, etc. and less about the in-depth sex details. More about the Annie Oakley stuff. Left me wondering, with more questions, and wanting more of the adventure on the river. COULD have been a great adventure for young girls/women. As is, would not recommend it.

  • by bammiecooper
    Sep 01, 2011

    Very good book

    I loved this book. Is there a secquel to it. I would like to know how the baby grew up. This book kept my attention riveted to it. I just could not put it down.

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