Rivers

Smith, Michael Farris

ISBN 10: 1628990015 ISBN 13: 9781628990010

Publisher: Center Point Pub, 2014

Synopsis

Following years of catastrophic hurricanes, the Gulf Coast has been brought to its knees. The government has drawn a new boundary line ninety miles north of the coastline. Life below the Line offers no services, no electricity, and no resources, and those who stay behind live by their own rules.

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Review:

"Every once in a while an author comes along who's in love with art and the written language and image and literary experiment and the complexity of his characters and the great mysteries that lie just on the other side of the physical world, writers like William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx. You can add Michael Farris Smith's name to the list."--James Lee Burke, New York Times bestselling author of Creole Belle and The Tin Roof Blowdown

Every once in a while an author comes along whos in love with art and the written language and image and literary experiment and the complexity of his characters and the great mysteries that lie just on the other side of the physical world, writers like William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx. You can add Michael Farris Smiths name to the list.--James Lee Burke, New York Times bestselling author of Creole Belle and The Tin Roof Blowdown

Every once in a while an author comes along who s in love with art and the written language and image and literary experiment and the complexity of his characters and the great mysteries that lie just on the other side of the physical world, writers like William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx. You can add Michael Farris Smith s name to the list. --James Lee Burke, New York Times bestselling author of Creole Belle and The Tin Roof Blowdown"

The lightning whips and the thunder bellows and the rain attacks in the water-stained pages of Michael Farris Smith s "Rivers," a hurricane-force debut novel that will soak you with its beautiful sadness and blow you away with its prescience about the weather-wild world that awaits us. --Benjamin Percy, author of Red Moon, The Wilding, and Refresh, Refresh"

A story so powerful, I thought it was going to ignite every time I picked the damn thing up." Rivers" will be compared to some of the greatest stories ever written by writers of generations past and present, but what can t be compared is the power and skill that lie within its pages. The words will shear your eyes and brand your mind, and you ll be scarred by what you ve read for days, weeks, even months after. This is an important book. Pick it up I bet you won t be able to put it down. --Frank Bill, author of Donnybrook and Crimes in Southern Indiana"

Take an environmental apocalypse, blow in the cadences of Ernest Hemingway and the vision of Cormac McCarthy, sweeten it with humanity, add a Southern twang, and you might get something close to "Rivers." Michael Farris Smith s debut novel is not only a great read; it s a significant one. --Anne Korkeakivi, author of An Unexpected Guest"

"The lightning whips and the thunder bellows and the rain attacks in the water-stained pages of Michael Farris Smith's Rivers, a hurricane-force debut novel that will soak you with its beautiful sadness and blow you away with its prescience about the weather-wild world that awaits us."--Benjamin Percy, author of Red Moon, The Wilding, and Refresh, Refresh

"A story so powerful, I thought it was going to ignite every time I picked the damn thing up. Rivers will be compared to some of the greatest stories ever written by writers of generations past and present, but what can't be compared is the power and skill that lie within its pages. The words will shear your eyes and brand your mind, and you'll be scarred by what you've read for days, weeks, even months after. This is an important book. Pick it up--I bet you won't be able to put it down."--Frank Bill, author of Donnybrook and Crimes in Southern Indiana

"Take an environmental apocalypse, blow in the cadences of Ernest Hemingway and the vision of Cormac McCarthy, sweeten it with humanity, add a Southern twang, and you might get something close to Rivers. Michael Farris Smith's debut novel is not only a great read; it's a significant one."--Anne Korkeakivi, author of An Unexpected Guest

About the Author:

Michael Farris Smith has been awarded the Transatlantic Review Award, Brick Streets Press Short Story Award, Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, and the Alabama Arts Council Fellowship Award for Literature. He is a graduate of Mississippi State and the Center for Writers at Southern Miss. He lives in Columbus, Mississippi, with his wife and two daughters. Rivers is his first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Center Point Pub
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1628990015
• ISBN 13: 9781628990010
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 463