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    Richard Flanagan

    Death of a River Guide (Grove) In this novel, a drowning river-guide in Tasmania relives his life as it recedes before him. Author Richard Flanagan insists that reality in his island homeland is stranger still...

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    By Michael Silverblatt • Nov 22, 2001 • 30m Listen

    Death of a River Guide (Grove)

    In this novel, a drowning river-guide in Tasmania relives his life as it recedes before him. For all the miraculous and surreal events in this book, author Richard Flanagan insists that reality in his island homeland is stranger still.

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