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By the river

Steven Herrick

2004232 pagesabout 4–5 hours
2004
first published
  • 2004Allen & Unwin · 232 pages · ENGISBN 9781741143577
  • 2006Front Street · ENGISBN 9781932425727

A fourteen-year-old describes, through prose poems, his life in a small Australian town in 1962, where, since their mother's death, he and his brother have been mainly on their own to learn about life, death, and love.

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