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9780312427894

The River Queen A Memoir

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312427894

  • ISBN10:

    0312427891

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-05-27
  • Publisher: Picador

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Summary

In the fall of 2005 acclaimed writer Mary Morris set off down the Mississippi River in a battered old houseboat called The River Queen, with two river rats named Tom and Jerry and an ailing, irascible rat terrier named Samantha Jean. Her father had just died. Her daughter had gone off to college. Lost and uncertain, Morris returned to the river of her youth, to the waterside towns where her father had once lived. In this poignant and often humorous memoir, Morris reclaims the world of her childhood as she gets a bearing on her future. She describes traveling down stream through the Midwest, living like a pirate as she survives a tornado and infestation of mayflies, bivouacs on beaches, and ties up to paddleboats in the dark of night. As she learns to pilot the River Queen through these fabled waters, Morris delivers a memoir that "deserves to be both a best-seller and a classic" (The Courier-Journal).

Author Biography

MARY MORRIS is the author of the travel memoirs Nothing to Declare, Wall to Wall, and Angels and Aliens, along with six novels and three collections of short stories. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

Table of Contents

Downstreamp. 1
Stormp. 28
Islandsp. 38
Ghost Riverp. 65
Mistp. 87
Currentp. 107
Around the Bendp. 129
Mayfliesp. 151
Hannibalp. 166
Hurricanep. 193
Confluencep. 222
Upstreamp. 245
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