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The River King

By Alice Hoffman

By Alice Hoffman

By Alice Hoffman

By Alice Hoffman

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Jul 01, 2001 | ISBN 9780425179673

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Jul 01, 2001 | ISBN 9781440674242

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    About The River King

    A story about a small town’s surface appearance and the truths submerged below from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic.

    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 from them. But there are minor collisions happening everywhere: An awkward boy, the son of a teacher, is flirting with a pretty classmate, the daughter of a convenience-store cashier. A photographer in plastic flip-flops and an overflowing backpack is about to marry a staid, ambitious historian. And when a body is found in the river behind the school, a local policeman named Abey Grey will walk into this enclosed world and upset it entirely…

    About The River King

    A story about a small town’s surface appearance and the truths submerged below from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic.

    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 from them. But there are minor collisions happening everywhere: An awkward boy, the son of a teacher, is flirting with a pretty classmate, the daughter of a convenience-store cashier. A photographer in plastic flip-flops and an overflowing backpack is about to marry a staid, ambitious historian. And when a body is found in the river behind the school, a local policeman named Abey Grey will walk into this enclosed world and upset it entirely…

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    About Alice Hoffman

    Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including The World That We Knew, The Rules of Magic, Practical Magic, The Marriage of Opposites, The Red Garden, the Oprah’s Book Club selection Here on Earth, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, and The Dovekeepers…. More about Alice Hoffman

    About Alice Hoffman

    Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including The World That We Knew, The Rules of Magic, Practical Magic, The Marriage of Opposites, The Red Garden, the Oprah’s Book Club selection Here on Earth, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, and The Dovekeepers…. More about Alice Hoffman

    Product Details

    Category: Crime Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Berkley
    Jul 01, 2001 | 352 Pages | 5-1/8 x 8 | ISBN 9780425179673

    Category: Crime Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Berkley
    Jul 01, 2001 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9781440674242

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    Praise for The River King

    “Graceful, beguiling, and quirky…Reading her book is like having a dream that haunts even after we awaken.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    “Rewarding…a novel not to be missed.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    “Set in and around an exclusive private school in fictional Haddan, Mass., bestselling author Hoffman’s latest novel flows as swiftly and limpidly as the Haddan River, the town’s mystical waterway…As ever, Hoffman mixes myth, magic and reality, addressing issues of town and gown, enchanting her readers with a many-layered morality tale and proving herself once again an inventive author with a distinctive touch.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

    “Suspenseful and engrossing.”—Denver Rocky Mountain News

    “It can be hard to find an example of good old-fashioned storytelling these days, but storytelling, refreshingly, is Alice Hoffman’s strength…The River King is full of wonderfully and satisfyingly odd twists and turns.”—The New York Times Book Review

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