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From the "new Hemingway" (San Francisco Chronicle), an achingly beautiful literary novel of generations of men torn apart by war and forced together by family
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"Let the word go out: There's a new Hemingway loose in America." --San Francisco Chronicle
"The Names of Rivers is a stunning look into the dark violence at the root of men's souls. It will leave you sickened like a gut-punch, but it will also make you want to come back for more." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Intensely written. . .displays a remarkably exacting touch. . . [and] surefooted storytelling skills." --Publishers Weekly
"Austerely beautiful prose. An elliptical, memorable read." --Booklist
"A haunting novel of family hurt and retribution that is beautiful in style and execution." --Library Journal
Set in a 1980s rustbelt town south of Chicago, NAMES OF RIVERS tells the story of Bruno Konick, an aged veteran of 'the good war' who has spent a lifetime haunted by his own actions during the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp; and his grandson Luke, a teenage boy forever dreaming of heroism in a post-Vietnam America. Together, they watch Luke's father Bruce, an unemployed factory worker badly disfigured during the siege of Khe Sanh, wander towards his suicidal end in a cornfield ruined by a freakish ice storm. When the youngest son Len unexpectedly returns home, recovered from the heroin addiction he acquired as a hospital corpsman in Saigon, he brings with him an old wound that Bruno Konick can never let himself touch. From a variety of perspectives, Buckman examines the complex relationships between fathers and sons, between men and history, weaving a cohesive novel rich in life's substance.
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- Publication date2003
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