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Title:Death of a River Guide
Author:Richard Flanagan
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 382 pages
Published:2004 by Atlantic Books (first published 1994)
Categories:Fiction. Cultural. Australia. Tasmania. Literary Fiction

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Aljaz Cosini is leading a group of tourists on a raft tour down Tasmania's wild Franklin River when his greatest fear is realized—a tourist falls overboard. An ordinary man with many regrets, Aljaz rises to an uncharacteristic heroism, and offers his own life in trade. Trapped under a rapid and drowning, Aljaz is beset with visions both horrible and fabulous. He sees Couta Ho, the beautiful, spirited woman he loved, and witnesses his uncle Reg having his teeth pulled and sold to pay for a ripple-iron house. He sees cities grow from the wild rain forest and a tree burst into flower in midwinter over his grandfather's forest grave. As the entirety of Tasmanian life—flora and fauna—sings him home, Aljaz arrives at a world where dreaming reasserts its power over thinking, where his family tree branches into stories of all human families, stories that ground him in the land and reveal the soul history of his country.

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Original Title: Death of a River Guide
ISBN: 1843542196 (ISBN13: 9781843542193)
Edition Language: English
Setting: Australia Tasmania(Australia)

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There is nothing really wrong with this book and it may even be a really good book, as other reviewers have indicated. There are some remarkable passages and a couple of interesting memories. However, this book did not speak to me. I found it muddled, swirling, eddying, like the river in the gorge and like the unfortunate rafters I found it took all my effort to hang on and to get to the end. At times I wished he would just hurry up and die. I'm not generally so callous...

There shouldn't be much suspense in a book called "Death of a River Guide," but the quickened pulse of Richard Flanagan's first novel is just part of its magic. The story takes place during the four or five minutes it takes Aljaz Cosini to drown. That's a dangerous position for narrator and author. As Benjamin Franklin said of hanging, it concentrates the mind.In Aljaz's case, having his head stuck between rocks in a raging river allows him to concentrate on his fractured life. "Death is not the

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh. But what connects the two? What remains? What abideth in the earth forever? My introduction to Richard Flanagans work was the award-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North which didnt particularly excite me. I was impressed with his talent for description and the communication of his characters thoughts but the story left me cold. Now, I have the blessing to have a wonderful boss. She adores books as much as I do and Death of a River

Aljaz Cosini is a river guide who drowns in the Franklin River in Tasmania. As he drowns he experiences visions of his life and that of his ancestors. He comes to understand his roots and the difficulties of his own life. These visions also tell the story of Aljaz's last days and his eventual drowning. The book is a bit of a slow burn but a clever and unique way to tell a historical story. The book has been called "beautiful and lyrical" and lyrical it certainly is. There are some

A torrent of a novel that swirls and eddies and washes over you like the waters of the Franklin River where Aljaz Cosini is drowning. And, as we have always heard, a drowning man sees his whole life flash before him. Here, it is more than just his life, it is also the life of his ancestors, and through them the history of Tasmania, a history that is bloody and disturbing, but touched by magnificent moments of humanity and man's struggle against nature raw in tooth and nail. It is a hugely

It's an interesting story. I liked the beginning and then it got a bit too difficult to read. At least for me. I liked it because it was different, the writing idea is good and the overall plot is interesting.There are parts of dialogue that are difficult to understand for me as I'm not raised with the English jargon. And then there's the first person going to third in the same sentence which requires a six-times-over the same sentence to get the idea. You get the idea :)The book is a good read

This book is actually a 4.5 for me. I really liked the story, in particular the mix of powerful realism and equally powerful magical realism, each in their own ways of being something strong. There's some prominent characters, plenty of historical characters of one genealogical family of Tasmania (1820s-1990s), and plenty more characters you know are there as in the whitewater rafting expedition on Tasmania's Franklin River but might not be named (the group of punters; the group of helicopter