02055cam a2200277 4500 759441310 TxAuBib 20190301120000.0 180305s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018007308 9780525521877 hbk. $25.95 0525521879 hbk. $25.95 (OCoLC)1028584527 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO BDX YDX ORX OCLCF UKMGB SSH JSE WSD DAD FMF TCH HQD JTH CSA OCLCO JAG OI6 ALD VTL OQX OCLCO MJ8 OCLCO TxGR TxAuBib Heller, Peter, 1959-, author. The river [Book] : a novel / by Peter Heller. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. 253 pages : illustration ; 22 cm. "Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddles and picking blueberries and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey. When they hear a man and woman arguing on the fog-shrouded riverbank and decide to warn them about the fire, their search for the pair turns up nothing and no one. But: The next day a man appears on the river, paddling alone. Is this the man they heard? And, if he is, where is the woman?"--Provided by publisher. 20190301. Canoes and canoeing Fiction. Wildfires Fiction. Canada, Northern Fiction. RV8