Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan Jackie Morris Publisher: Princeton University Press

Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan Jackie Morris Publisher: Princeton University PressFrom the winner of the Man Booker Prize. Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan's debut novel, is widely regarded as a classic in Australian literature. Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning. Beset 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,