03047cam a2200361 4500 468420653 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780547746913 0547746911 B005LVR740 Amazon 97f39da3-9bdc-4c2d-9ba0-3b2f0e3d923e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1044907 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Theroux, Paul, 1941- The Lower River [Libby]. HMH Books, 2012. Literary. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1566kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p>"[Hock] knows he is ensorcelled by exoticism, but he can't help himself. And, as things go from bad to worse and the pages start to turn faster, neither can we. <b>A</b>."—<i>Entertainment Weekly</i><br /> <br /> <br /> When he was a young man, Ellis Hock spent four of the best years of his life with the Peace Corps in Malawi. So when his wife of forty-two years leaves him, he decides to return to the village where he was stationed in search of the happiness he'd been missing since he left. But what he finds is not what he expected. The school he built is a ruin, the church and clinic are gone, and poverty and apathy have set in among the people.<br /> <br /> They remember Ellis and welcome him with open arms. Soon, however, their overtures turn menacing; they demand money and refuse to let him leave the village. Is his new life an escape or a trap?<br /> <br /> <br /> "Theroux's bravely unsentimental novel about a region where he began his own grand career should become part of anybody's education in the continent."—<i>Washington Post</i><br /> <br /> "<i>The Lower River</i> is riveting in its storytelling and provocative in its depiction of this African backwater, infusing both with undertones of slavery and cannibalism, savagery and disease."—<i>New York Times Book Review</i></p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/97F/39D/A3/LowerRiver9780547746913.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=97F39DA3-9BDC-4C2D-9BA0-3B2F0E3D923E&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/97F/39D/A3/LowerRiver9780547746913.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=97F39DA3-9BDC-4C2D-9BA0-3B2F0E3D923E&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/97F/39D/A3/LowerRiver9780547746913.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=97F39DA3-9BDC-4C2D-9BA0-3B2F0E3D923E&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)