{"id":46283,"date":"2019-12-22T11:12:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T16:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46283"},"modified":"2019-12-18T09:17:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T14:17:37","slug":"the-river-by-peter-heller-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-river-by-peter-heller-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The River by Peter Heller [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-45667\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/River-Peter-Heller-BookDragon-542x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/River-Peter-Heller-BookDragon-542x800.jpg 542w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/River-Peter-Heller-BookDragon.jpg 656w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/>\u201cThey were best friends at Dartmouth who had decided to take the summer and fall quarters off.\u201d Jack and Wynn are like brothers, \u201cbut better, because [they] didn\u2019t have to grow up fighting.\u201d After working as wilderness instructors in the Adirondacks, they embark on a northern Canadian river canoe trip. Adventures they expect \u2013 and seek \u2013 but they couldn\u2019t possibly be prepared for what lies ahead, both natural and human-made. They can likely avoid or escape fires or falls, but the looming human threat proves unrelenting. The pair\u2019s rescue of a severely injured woman, seemingly brutalized by her own husband, will require supreme sacrifices.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Deakins, who is at least twice the age of his two protagonists, might not seem an obvious casting choice for Heller\u2019s latest, but his maturity imbues his narration with gratifying depth: his experience ensures he maintains deliberate control, affectingly adapting between calm and chaos, pure enjoyment and desperate panic. Amplifying Jack and Wynn\u2019s interactions, Deakins deftly flows from the rhythms of surrounding nature to the unpredictability of (in)human contact.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-River-\/pid=9717329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221; <em>Booklist Online<\/em>, October 31, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThey were best friends at Dartmouth who had decided to take the summer and fall quarters off.\u201d Jack and Wynn are like brothers, \u201cbut better, because [they] didn\u2019t have to grow up fighting.\u201d After working as wilderness instructors in the Adirondacks, they embark on a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,81,6,60,6535],"tags":[32,6608,6668,75,11,1070,212,309,8811,8812],"class_list":["post-46283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-audio","category-fiction","category-nonethnic-specific","category-repost","tag-adventure","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-death","tag-friendship","tag-mark-deakins","tag-murder","tag-nature","tag-peter-heller","tag-river"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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