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The Lower River

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The Lower River

Ellis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short when he had to return to take over the family business. When his wife leaves him, and he is on his own, he realizes that there is one place for him to go: back to his village in Malawi, on the remote Lower River, where he can be happy again.

Arriving at the dusty village, he finds it transformed: the school he built is a ruin, the church and clinic are gone, and poverty and apathy have set in among the people. They remember himâ€”the White Man with no fear of snakesâ€”and welcome him. But is his new life, his journey back, an escape or a trap?

Interweaving memory and desire, hope and despair, salvation and damnation, this is a hypnotic, compelling, and brilliant return to a terrain about which no one has ever written better than Theroux.

Country	USA
Author	Paul Theroux
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780547746500
Edition	1
ISBN	0547746504
Label	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Manufacturer	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	336
PublicationDate	2012-05-22
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ReleaseDate	2012-05-22
Studio	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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