![]() ![]() There is a tendency toward status-flagging in this novel. ![]() He brilliantly describes the physical process of wild living. ![]() has an extraordinary facility for describing topography and vegetation we can feel the sharpness of the rocks and the trilling excitement of the river as it approaches rapids. The River is a fiction addition to the New Landscape writing of Robert Macfarlane and Rebecca Solnit, prose so vivid and engaging that a city-dwelling reviewer can feel the clammy cold of a fog over a river or the heat of subterranean tree roots burning underfoot in the aftermath of a fire. Initially reads as slightly puritanical - drunks are bad, fat people are dumb, Jack and Wynn are handsome and good at everything - but this tendency reverses so completely and shockingly at the end that it can almost, but not quite, knock any smugness from a reader. ![]()
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