Can I read Once Upon a River : a Novel on EtoBox?

Once Upon a River : a Novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell [Campbell, Bonnie Jo] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Once Upon a River : a Novel about?

ReviewWith 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. (Natasha Clark - Elle )This is a splendid story of survival in extremis, with a searingly original heroine. (Parade )...the book is a violent but inspiring tale packed with colorful river dwellers, a working-class community of power company and metal workers, farmers, hunters and housewives....Campbell has created a character with an iron gut and a heart to match, recalling powerful heroines like Clara of Joyce Carol Oates' A Garden of Earthly Delights and Ree of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone. (Liz Colville - NPR.org )Starred Review. A dramatic and rhapsodic American odyssey. A female Huckleberry Finn. A wild-child-to-caring-woman story as intricately meshed with the natural life of the river as a myth. ...she conveys all that Margo does, thinks, and feels with transfixing sensuous precision, from the jolt of a gun to the muscle burn of rowing a boat against the current to the weight of a man. From killing and skinning game to falling in with outlaws and finding refuge with kind if irasci

Who reads Once Upon a River : a Novel?

Author

Bonnie Jo Campbell [Campbell, Bonnie Jo]

Publisher

Fourth Estate

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393079890

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Travel

Rating

3.69 / 5 (5,823 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14