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This was made into the 1970s film with Burt Reynolds and John Voight but my goodness, the writing! So poetic. I knew there was something special about his writing when I first started to read and when I checked up on him, discovered he was also a poet. Believe me - his evocative passages shines through, something you can't really appreciate in the film. Supberb!!
“You're hooked, you feel every cut, grope up every cliff, swallow water with every spill of the canoe, sweat with every draw of the bowstring. Wholly absorbing [and] dramatic.”—Harper's Magazine
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
An enchanting psychological thriller about a man who unwittingly swaps lives with a wealthy doppelganger. Set in provincial France in the 1950s, this picturesque tale is full of charm and mystery yet at its heart, is about familial and romantic love. It was made into a film in 1959 with Alec Guinness and remade in 2012. One of du Maurier's more warming reads!
"Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, 'Je vous demande pardon,' and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking at myself." Two men-one English, the other French-meet by chance in a provincial railway station and are astounded that they are so much alike that they could easily pass for each other. Over the course of a long evening, they…
