Once Upon a River - by Bonnie Jo Campbell (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for "American Salvage" comes an odyssey of a novel about a girl's search for love and identity.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier. After the violent death of her father, Margo takes to the river in search of her mother with only a biography of Annie Oakley to her name. Her river odyssey through rural Michigan becomes a defining journey, one that leads her beyond self-preservation and to deciding what price she is willing to pay for her choices.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>American fiction waited a long time for Bonnie Jo Campbell to come along. A lot of us, not only women, were looking for a fictional heroine who would be deeply good, brave as a wolverine, never a crybaby, as able as Sacagawea, with a strong and unapologetic sexuality. We wanted to feel her roots in some ancient story; we wanted Diana the huntress, but not her virginity; we wanted a real human girl whom we could believe had been suckled by bears, or wolves. To give us heroines like this, the gods finally brought us Bonnie Jo Campbell, one of our most important and necessary writers.--Jaimy Gordon, National Book Award-winning author of Lord of Misrule<br><br>An extended slice of life. That's the key to Campbell's stories, which eschew easy summaries, easy conclusions, and are all the more astonishing for doing so.<br><br>Campbell has a ruthless and precise eye for the details of the physical world...An excellent American parable about the consequences of our favorite ideal, freedom.--Jane Smiley<br><br>Campbell's sensuous prose vividly evokes the natural world and brings us inside Margo's experience of it.<br><br>Keenly observed and described with a tender regard reminiscent of the best of Berry or Stegner.<br><br>Margo's struggle to survive proves irresistible, like the tug of the Stark [River] itself.<br><br>Whether upstream or downstream, Campbell's full-blooded young heroine wants to make her own way...By novel's end, [Margo] emerges as one of the most realistic underage runaways in modern fiction--part Huck Finn, part Annie Oakley, and always herself.<br><br>With this book, Campbell has delivered a gripping story confirming her status as one of the most distinctive storytellers of her generation.<br><br>With all the fixings of a Johnny Cash song--love, loss, redemption--Campbell captures these Michiganders and their earthy, brutal paradise in tales rich with insight and well worth the trip.<br>
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