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"Let the word go out: There's a new Hemingway loose in America."
"The Names of Rivers is a stunning look into the dark violence at the root of men's souls. It will leave you sickened like a gut-punch, but it will also make you want to come back for more."
"Intensely written...displays a remarkably exacting touch...[and] surefooted storytelling skills."
"Austerely beautiful prose. An elliptical, memorable read."
"A haunting novel of family hurt and retribution that is beautiful in style and execution."
The Names of Rivers is a tightly crafted search for redemption and forgiveness within the shadows of a family's past. Set in a 1980s rustbelt town south of Chicago, the novel tells the story of Bruno Konick, an aged veteran of "the good war" who has spent a lifetime haunted by his own actions during the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp; and his grandson Luke, a teenage boy forever dreaming of heroism in a post-Vietnam America. Together, they watch Luke's father, Bruce, an unemployed factory worker badly disfigured during the siege of Khe Sanh, wander toward his suicidal end in a cornfield ruined by a freakish ice storm. When Bruno's youngest son Len unexpectedly returns home, recovered from the heroin addiction he learned as a hospital corpsman in Saigon, he brings with him an old wound that Bruno Konick can never let himself touch.
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Librería: Montclair Book Center, Montclair, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: USED Good. Nº de ref. del artículo: 411560
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Librería: Books on the Square, Virden, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Printing. 2002. 1st Printing. Near Fine hardback book. Very Good dust jacket. A like new copy in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. 197pp. Sm 4to. (D). Nº de ref. del artículo: 015993
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Librería: Priceless Books, Urbana, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Hb. Condición: VG. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG. 1st. 197pp. Extremities book & Dj lightly rubbed; Dj in Mylar. Nº de ref. del artículo: 133278
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Librería: Taos Books, Santa Fe, NM, Estados Unidos de America
Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Clean tight unmarked copy, no edition stated presumed first, 197 pages, highly praised novel concerns aftermath of Vietnam. Nº de ref. del artículo: 18911
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Librería: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Akashic Books 2002-06-01 00:00:00 Binding: Hardcover Akashic Books, 2002. First edition. Hardcover w unclipped dj. VG+VG. Small closed tear on back cover of dj. Nº de ref. del artículo: 44603
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Librería: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Very Good. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author on title page. Nº de ref. del artículo: SB10M-00878
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Librería: Ebooksweb, Bensalem, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: VeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover. Nº de ref. del artículo: 52GZZZ00QB7W_ns
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Librería: Ebooksweb, Bensalem, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: LikeNew. Remainder mark. Nº de ref. del artículo: 52GZZZ00IR7J_ns
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Librería: Ebooksweb, Bensalem, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: New. . Nº de ref. del artículo: 52GZZZ00OFCV_ns
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Librería: Big Bill's Books, Wimberley, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: new. Brand New Copy. Nº de ref. del artículo: BBB_new1888451297
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