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Between Two Rivers : A Novel by Nicholas Rinaldi (2004, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100060578769

ISBN-139780060578763

eBay Product ID (ePID)30437642

Product Key Features

Book TitleBetween Two Rivers : a Novel

Number of Pages448 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), General

GenreFiction

AuthorNicholas Rinaldi

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight26.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-062451

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsOffers even more than fine writing and a well-constructed, intriguing tale ... poignant and uplifting., Memorable....Richly textured....Rinaldi paints a complex, compelling portrait of the ways in which we flirt with the American Dream., A novel of substance worth your sinking into this summer . BETWEEN TWO RIVERS is the book of a lifetime., Rinaldi is a master of elegant prose gradually hypnotizes and charms, coaxing beauty from the tragic and surreal., Offer[s] subtle portraits of the residents of Echo Terrace....These are complex, moving stoires...with multifaceted and memorable characters., Superb entertainment what counts is the warmhearted celebration of New Yorkers and their relentless curiosity., A beautiful, emotionally uplifting tribute to the human spirit....Rinaldi summons no less than the pageant of the human tragicomedy., Hypnotic Mesmerizing Audacious a novel of eerie dimension A wondrously restrained group portrait of a downtown Manhattan condominium s residents.

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisWithin the walls of Echo Terrace, the world ... A beautifully resonant novel with a dazzling array of characters whose life stories are woven together into a breathtaking braid of love and memory. Farro Fescu is the proud and observant concierge of Echo Terrace, a condominium in New York City. Passing through his lobby at all hours of the night and day is an exotic cross-section of the world's population: an Egyptian-born plastic surgeon who lives on the fifth floor and specializes in gender reassignment; a fighter pilot, on the eighth floor, who flew for Nazi Germany during World War II; an Iraqi spice merchant and the world-famous crazy-patch quilter with whom he's having an affair; the adulterer's son, dreaming of becoming an undertaker; and the widow whose apartment is a jungle Eden filled with a menagerie of specimens -- finches, canaries, a defanged cobra, a monkey named Joe -- that had been the subject of her dead husband's research. Farro Fescu knows them all, knows all their secrets. He knows what happened to Yesenia Rivera, the nineteen-year-old staff housekeeper from Queens, when she took a fateful ride one evening on the Staten Island Ferry. He alone knows the truth behind the mysterious mishap that befell the fashion designer Ira Klempp, a resident of the twelfth floor. And he knows -- and would like to know much more -- about the alluring María Gracia Moño, sometime lover of Harry Falcon, the brilliant captain of industry who lives in the penthouse and is dying of cancer. He is keenly attuned to the building and the people in it, yet he does not know what is in his own heart -- why, after a long, hard life, he is still alive, and still alone. Nor does he know what he will be capable of in the face of sudden, overwhelming tragedy. As the narrative eye of Between Two Rivers floats from one apartment to another, revealing the characters' private histories and tracing the dramatic intersections of their daily lives, a lush tapestry of experience emerges. The story, in beautifully textured prose, is laced with wit and humor, subtle ironies and haunting echoes, and everywhere a profound sense of the resilience of the human spirit., Within the walls of Echo Terrace, the world ... A beautifully resonant novel with a dazzling array of characters whose life stories are woven together into a breathtaking braid of love and memory. Farro Fescu is the proud and observant concierge of Echo Terrace, a condominium in New York City. Passing through his lobby at all hours of the night and day is an exotic cross-section of the world's population: an Egyptian-born plastic surgeon who lives on the fifth floor and specializes in gender reassignment; a fighter pilot, on the eighth floor, who flew for Nazi Germany during World War II; an Iraqi spice merchant and the world-famous crazy-patch quilter with whom he's having an affair; the adulterer's son, dreaming of becoming an undertaker; and the widow whose apartment is a jungle Eden filled with a menagerie of specimens -- finches, canaries, a defanged cobra, a monkey named Joe -- that had been the subject of her dead husband's research. Farro Fescu knows them all, knows all their secrets. He knows what happened to Yesenia Rivera, the nineteen-year-old staff housekeeper from Queens, when she took a fateful ride one evening on the Staten Island Ferry. He alone knows the truth behind the mysterious mishap that befell the fashion designer Ira Klempp, a resident of the twelfth floor. And he knows -- and would like to know much more -- about the alluring Mar a Gracia Mo o, sometime lover of Harry Falcon, the brilliant captain of industry who lives in the penthouse and is dying of cancer. He is keenly attuned to the building and the people in it, yet he does not know what is in his own heart -- why, after a long, hard life, he is still alive, and still alone. Nor does he know what he will be capable of in the face of sudden, overwhelming tragedy. As the narrative eye of Between Two Rivers floats from one apartment to another, revealing the characters' private histories and tracing the dramatic intersections of their daily lives, a lush tapestry of experience emerges. The story, in beautifully textured prose, is laced with wit and humor, subtle ironies and haunting echoes, and everywhere a profound sense of the resilience of the human spirit.

LC Classification NumberPS3568.I47B48 2004