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He has been a finalist for the southern book prize, the gold dagger award in the uk, and the grand prix des lectrices in france. Blackwood by michael farris smith little, brown and company. Rivers by michael farris smith author michael farris smith narrator. Rivers by michael farris smith for fans of cormac mccarthy and annie proulx, a wonderfully cinematic story the washington post set in the postkatrina. The lightning whips and the thunder bellows and the rain attacks in the waterstained pages of michael farris smiths rivers, a hurricaneforce debut novel that will soak you with its beautiful sadness and blow you away with its prescience about the weatherwild world that awaits us. Smiths dystopian vision of an america besieged by rain, showers and rapaciously lethal storms is a rich, multilayered literary affair, as much a meditation on the nature of loneliness, a paean to lost love, as it is an unsettling study of human greed and its appalling consequences.
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