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From the best-selling author of The Dovekeepers, The River King confirms Alice Hoffman as "one of our quirkiest and most interesting novelists" (Jane Smiley, USA Today).People tend to stay in their place in the town of Haddan. The students at the prestigious prep school don't mix with locals. Even within the school, hierarchy rules as freshman and faculty members find out where they fit in and what is expected of them. But when a body is found in the river behind the school, a local policeman will walk into this enclosed world and upset it entirely. A story of surface appearances and the truths submerged below.
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The River King, Alice Hoffman
- Language
- Released
- 2000
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- The River King
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alice Hoffman
- Publisher
- Berkley
- Released
- 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 344
- ISBN10
- 0425179672
- ISBN13
- 9780425179673
- Series
- Tags
- Mystery Novels, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, Suspense, Relationships, Murders, Death, Coming Of Age, Ghosts and Apparitions, Police, Magical Realism, Betrayal, Small Town, Dark Academia
- Description
- From the best-selling author of The Dovekeepers, The River King confirms Alice Hoffman as "one of our quirkiest and most interesting novelists" (Jane Smiley, USA Today).People tend to stay in their place in the town of Haddan. The students at the prestigious prep school don't mix with locals. Even within the school, hierarchy rules as freshman and faculty members find out where they fit in and what is expected of them. But when a body is found in the river behind the school, a local policeman will walk into this enclosed world and upset it entirely. A story of surface appearances and the truths submerged below.