Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The River, also known as The Return and Hatchet: The Return, is a 1991 young adult novel by Gary Paulsen.It is the second installment in the Hatchet series, although Brian's Winter (1996) kicks off an alternative trilogy of sequels to Hatchet that disregard The River from canon.
The book is the basis of a The River Why (film) starring Zach Gilford, William Hurt and Amber Heard. The film was released to critics in April, 2010. [2] The novel was adapted for the stage by Book-It Repertory Theatre of Seattle and produced in early 2010. [3]
The river's source is a small North Polar sea, from which it follows a course tightly zig-zagging across one hemisphere before flowing into another, along an equally labyrinthine path, to the same sea. The river has an average depth of 1.5 miles (2.4 km), and its width ranges from 6.8 miles (10.9 km) to 24.8 miles (39.9 km).
"The River" is a Southern gothic short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor that was first published in 1953 about a very young boy who is taken by his babysitter to a preacher at a Christian healing where he is baptized in a river, and, the next day, runs away from home to the site of his baptism and baptizes himself, and then is ...
The River Between is a 1965 novel by prolific Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o that was published as part of the influential Heinemann African Writers Series. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It tells the story of the separation of two neighbouring villages of Kenya caused by differences in faith set in the decades of roughly the early 20th century.
The River and the Source, a novel which is a set book used in Kenya schools and has won the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature in 1995 and the 1995 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in Africa. [5] It has been translated into Italian, Lithuanian and Spanish. The book describes the changing lives of 4 generations of Kenyan women. [6]
The book's arrival comes as the United States and Canada are renegotiating the Columbia River Treaty, a 60-year-old agreement that guides management of the river and its hydroelectric dams.
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories is a semi-autobiographical collection of three stories by American author Norman Maclean (1902–1990) published in 1976. It was the first work of fiction published by the University of Chicago Press .