Death Of A River Guide

by Richard Flanagan
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Now available as a new Vintage edition, Richard Flanagan’s debut novel is widely regarded as a classic in Australian literature

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NOW AVAILABLE AS A NEW VINTAGE EDITION Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning. Best by visions at once horrible and fabulous, he relives not just his own life but that of his family and forebears. In the rainforest waters that rush over him he sees those lives stripped of their surface realities, and finds a world where dreaming reasserts its power over thinking. As the river rises, his visions grow more turbulent, and in the flood of his past Aljaz discovers the soul history of his country. Richard Flanagan's 1994 debut about a mythical Tasmania dazzled readers around the world, and is now recognised as one of the most powerful and original Australian novels of recent decades. 'Very, very beautiful' -- BALTIMORE SUN

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Richard Flanagan on Classics

by Richard Flanagan on 1 February 2012

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Of late, great novels have acquired the added allure of the derided and the denied. Though not yet forbidden, children are taught that there are no such things as novels but only texts, or, in a fashionable variant, data; our multi-streaming media constantly repeats that if there are novels they are from the past, dying or dead, exotic strange things like a Himalayan snow leopard or Barbary lion,...

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