About this Item
Green paper-covered boards with green backstrip and gilt lettering, embossed swan decoration to front board. Hint of sun to edges. Text is clean and white, no marks. Signed by Hoffman on the front endpaper. Unclipped DJ shows minor edgewear, easily removable "Signed Copy" label to front cover. "For more than a century, the small town of Haddan, Massachusetts, has been divided, as if by a line drawn down the center of Main Street, separating those born and bred in the village from those who attended the prestigious Hadden School. but one October night, after an inexplicable death, the two world are thrust together, and the town's divided history is revealed in all its complexity." (from the jacket). Seller Inventory # N71711
Bibliographic Details
Title: The River King
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First Printing.
About this title
The four outsiders at the novel's heart are brought together by the dramatic forces of love and death: two new students, Gus, a rebellious, hapless loner; Carlin, a beautiful swimmer from Florida; Betsy, the unconventional photography teacher trapped in a conventional engagement, and Abel, the local cop who comes to the school to investigate a drowning. After a tragic flood, the novel picks up pace and switches from gothic horror to detective story with hints of The X Files. A ghost appears in Betsy's photos and leaves mementoes from the river all around the school. When the drowned corpse is found to have faecal matter in its lungs in a cleaned-up river, the plot takes on echoes of Chinatown and is no less riveting for that.
Although Hoffman misses some of the menace and narrative drive of a true thriller, her portrait of a secluded world, which has developed its own secrets, rules and inability to confront evil, weaves a murky and disturbing spell. --Cherry Smyth
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