The tale is one of a child growing up. During a brief Indian winter, Harriet knew death, birth, cruelty, kindness, retribution, and the shadow of love. As she watched the flow of the river mirror the inexorable changes in her life, she was becoming a woman - though not quite an ordinary one, as she herself suspected. Read More
The tale is one of a child growing up. During a brief Indian winter, Harriet knew death, birth, cruelty, kindness, retribution, and the shadow of love. As she watched the flow of the river mirror the inexorable changes in her life, she was becoming a woman - though not quite an ordinary one, as she herself suspected. Read Less
Add this copy of The River to cart. $8.86, good condition, Sold by Stephen White Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bradford, WEST YORKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1998 by Robert Hale Ltd.
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Fair. No Jacket. Size: 5x0x8; Please note some stock images show a jacket, this copy does NOT include a jacket. Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.
Add this copy of The River to cart. $13.59, good condition, Sold by The Guru Bookshop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, WALES, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1946 by Michael Joseph Ltd.
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Good. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).
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Very Good in Good jacket. Book Early printing. Hardbound in dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front free end page. Previous owner's address label affixed to front fixed end page. Darkening to spine of dust jacket. Minor chipping & wear to dust jacket edges, otherwise very good.
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Very Good. Bound in publisher's red decorative cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Light sunning to spine. Good binding. Previous owner's name on FEP, otherwise clean, unmarked pages. 176 pages; 20 cm. Inspired by the author's personal experiences as a child raised in India-and the basis for the acclaimed classic motion picture of the same name from French film director Jean Renoir-Rumer Godden's The River is a lovely, moving portrayal of childhood's end. Evocative, heartfelt, and bittersweet, it is a coming-of-age story without equal from a major twentieth-century novelist.
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Very Good. First edition. Very good/paperback. First in this form. Mermaid Books. Pages clean. Corners bent. Edges of spine rubbed. Name on front endpaper.
It annoys me that so many of Rumer Goddens novels are described as books for children or teenagers. This depiction of life IS from the point of view of a white child living on the banks of a river in colonial India, but is far from childish. The writing is very sparse, but manages to capture the experience of being there at that time, and being a child very precisely. There is only one major event in the novel, but overall it manages to encompasses, life, death, guilt and love! Needs to be read from the point of view of an adult to really appreciate the point of view of this child.
AlmaD
Aug 15, 2009
The River
This is a beautifully written book, almost perfectly written, and the story is subtle though riveting. I would recommend it to any westerner who loves India or wants to go there. Although Jean Renoir made a good movie from this book, in collaboration with the author, I enjoyed the book more.
