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The River King

Alice Hoffman

Paperback | Pages: 344 pages

Rating: 3.71 | 9671 Users | 608 Reviews

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Title	:	The River King
Author	:	Alice Hoffman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 344 pages
Published	:	July 2001 by Berkley (first published July 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Magical Realism. Mystery. Fantasy

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From the best-selling author of The Dovekeepers, The River King confirms Alice Hoffman as "one of our quirkiest and most interesting novelists" (Jane Smiley, USA Today).

People tend to stay in their place in the town of Haddan. The students at the prestigious prep school don't mix with locals. Even within the school, hierarchy rules as freshman and faculty members find out where they fit in and what is expected of them. But when a body is found in the river behind the school, a local policeman will walk into this enclosed world and upset it entirely. A story of surface appearances and the truths submerged below.

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Original Title:	The River King
ISBN:	0425179672 (ISBN13: 9780425179673)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Massachusetts Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2001)

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I want to like Alice Hoffman books but they're really hard for me to get into. I'd like to think that I just read them at bad times, like when my mind is on something else. But I gave this one a really good try, and I found that it wasn't too bad, once I get past all the things that don't mesh well between me and Hoffman's writing. This book centers around a boarding school in New England, a quiet one where the "rich kids" are sent and silently scorned by the townies. When a young boy is found

I have seriously loved a number of Alice Hoffman's books, but this one is not one of her best. It's nearly all exposition and a number of the plot twists are not written so as to be plausible. A frustrating read, given what delightful writing I know her to be capable of.

I just finished this book, and I have to say I was thoroughly disappointed. The book started off intriguingly enough with the story unfolding with the tragic local legend of Annie Howe and her untimely death. Her death somewhat relates to another character in the story, and sets the stage to create a misty sad atmosphere. The tension between the town folk and the Hadden School is briefly explained in the begining of the novel, and far less interesting than it promises. Based on other reviews it

As soon as I started "The River King" I was smiling at having found something distinctive and wonderful.I luxuriated in surrendering myself into the hands of a dryly witty, joyfully articulate and completely omniscient narrator who curated my journey through the lives of a small group of people at a long-established boarding school in a tiny Massachusetts town.The form is close to that of a well-edited early twentieth-century novel but the sensibility is that of the early twenty-first century.

This is one of the most poorly edited books I've ever tried to read. So many paragraphs seemed unconnected to the ones before or after them; sometimes the topic seemed to shift mid-paragraph. In once case, a sentence contradicted the one immediately preceding it: on page 74 Carlin "no longer bothered" to reply to her employer; then she "never replied" to her employer. Verbal clunkiness abounds.And magical realism doesn't mean making sh*t up. There are no badgers in Massachusetts (can't find the

In the past I have loved Alice's magical and almost poetic prose. Her plots have been intriguing and always such idiosyncratic characters. You know, what' not to love?THE RIVER KING certainly starts out in the same way though this one dark, lots of rain, twigs breaking, howling wind. Something crappy is going to happen. She lets us know in her own unique way. and so it does. And no pun intended, that is surely the case with what occurs to Gus. I wish I could divide the book into two scores

You get hooked into Gus and Carlin's story and then suddenly it seems, it's Abel's book instead. This is the first Alice Hoffman book I've read and I did like her style for the most part. Finished it thinking, hastily wrapped up bits and lots of loose ends.Little Free Library Find (my neighborhood is FULL of them which is a great joy!)