A River So Long

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Pub Date Jun 15 2012 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Luminis | Myrick Marketing & Media

Description

Vallie Lynn Watson’s debut novel follows thirty-something Veronica as she jolts between five-star hotels in New Orleans, New York, and the North Carolina coast. Veronica’s business keeps her on the move, and further strains her relationships with the already unsuitable men she's met along the way, not to mention her blink-and-you-miss-him husband.

A River So Long, like Veronica’s life, is a fragmented conflation of time, place, and people—she’s a gypsy, and the world she inhabits is, if not blurry, at least kaleidoscopic. This remarkable novel reads like Jean Rhys run over by the twenty-first century—a rushing, threatening, constantly changing scene with a tumultuous, multiplying cast.

Vallie Lynn Watson’s debut novel follows thirty-something Veronica as she jolts between five-star hotels in New Orleans, New York, and the North Carolina coast. Veronica’s business keeps her on the...


Advance Praise

“A River So Long is a lean and dirty dance through the unhooked lives of its characters, young people with jobs and cares and relationships about which they seem to know next to nothing. Desperately disconnected, they nevertheless keep trying to find each other in the mess of contemporary American life. A splendid almost documentary rendering of the way things go these days.” –Frederick Barthelme, author of Waveland, Chroma, and Moon Deluxe

“A River So Long is a lean and dirty dance through the unhooked lives of its characters, young people with jobs and cares and relationships about which they seem to know next to nothing. Desperately...


Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781935462606
PRICE $17.95 (USD)
PAGES 180