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! Read ^ Rivers: A Novel by Michael Farris Smith · eBook or Kindle ePUB. Rivers: A Novel I kept thinking about the story and then develop nagging "What If ??" questions ! This first novel by Michael Farris Smith, held my interest long after I had finished reading. One sign an author has been successful is when you keep thinking about the story and then you develop nagging "What If ??" questions about the possibilities of it coming to pass in a future time.I almost narrated the whole story to my husba. ""He read his own note. And then he said, 'I told you.'"" according to Nathan Webs
| Title | : | Rivers: A Novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.46 (810 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1451699433 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-25 |
| Language | : | English |
I kept thinking about the story and then develop nagging "What If ??" questions ! This first novel by Michael Farris Smith, held my interest long after I had finished reading. One sign an author has been successful is when you keep thinking about the story and then you develop nagging "What If ??" questions about the possibilities of it coming to pass in a future time.I almost narrated the whole story to my husba. ""He read his own note. And then he said, 'I told you.'"" according to Nathan Webster. I liked this book, and it was a good mix of escapism and strong writing. I will say that after the first 10 pages, I wondered if Cormac McCarthy was writing under a pen-name; but then I blinked and I was on page 9"He read his own note. And then he said, 'I told you.'" I liked this book, and it was a good mix of escapism and strong writing. I will say that after the first 10 pages, I wondered if Cormac McCarthy was writing under a pen-name; but then I blinked and I was on page 93 (where the title above is quoted - my favorite line in the book). So I knew it was a good one.Author Michael Farris Smi. (where the title above is quoted - my favorite line in the book). So I knew it was a good one.Author Michael Farris Smi. "Michael Farris Smith" according to Tom T. Rivers, a novel by Michael Farris Smith is one of the most intense novels I have ever read. If I could give it 6 stars instead of 5 I would. The story takes place in the not so distant future in Louisiana. Weather patterns across the U.S. had changed over several years until hurricane after hurricane came ashore, one after the other
. 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. Michael Farris Smithhas 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
Years of catastrophic hurricanes have so punished and depleted the region that the government has drawn a new boundary ninety miles north of the coastline. Now Cohen is faced with a decision: continue to the Line alone, or try to shepherd the madman’s prisoners across the unforgiving land with the biggest hurricane yet bearing down—and Cohen harboring a secret that poses the greatest threat of all.Eerily prophetic in its depiction of a Southern landscape ravaged by extreme weather, Rivers is a masterful tale of survival and redemption in a world where t
Smith imagines the devastation the Gulf Coast might experience if Hurricane Katrina marked the beginning of a continuous deluge of rain and wind, forcing the government to establish the Line, which isolates the South in flooding and lawlessness. While Rivers is already inviting inevitable comparisons to Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), Smith’s canvas is broader and the story even more riveting. Left homeless, Cohen finds his way to a ramshackle trailer park controlled by a messianic figure named Aggie, from whose clutches Cohen frees the teens and several women for a perilous dash to
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