The River Wife: A Novel
 

The River Wife: A Novel

by Jonis Agee

From acclaimed novelist Jonis Agee, whom The New York Times Book Review called “a gifted poet of that dark lushness in the heart of the American landscape,” The River Wife is a sweeping, panoramic story that ranges from the New Madrid earthquake of 1811 through the Civil War to the bootlegging days of the 1930s.

When the earthquake brings Annie Lark’s Missouri house... (read more)

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Ladyslott
  • Rated 4 stars

It is 1930; seventeen years old, and pregnant, Hedie Rails has just married Clement Ducharme and has moved into his family estate, a remote home in rural Missouri. Hedie’s new husband seems to be involved in some shady business, going out at all hours of the night, sometimes coming up bloodied and hung over. While roaming the house at night Hedie finds the journals of Annie Lark, the first wife of Jacques Ducharme, the larger than life ancestor of Clement and the man who built the estate....

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Lisa
  • Rated 1 stars

This book was riveting in the beginning- then flopped like a big wet rag! The author should have ended the book way earlier.

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  • Rated 3.48 stars
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  • Rated 3.5 stars
 

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  • Julie L

    julie l said:

    A strange and ultimately unsatisfying book that nonetheless contained some really interesting passages.

    posted Friday, January 4 2008
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