{"product_id":"rhine-journey-paperback-1","title":"Rhine Journey - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnn Schlee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLauren Groff\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn a Victorian pleasure cruise, a chance encounter opens the floodgates to regret, desire, and possibility in this \"little period gem of feeling and clarity\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is 1851, only three years since Europe was convulsed by workers' revolutions, but already English tourists are returning to the Continent, taking the waters at Baden Baden, then traveling by paddle steamer down the Rhine valley, celebrated for its romantic vistas. Among the sightseers are the pious Reverend Charles Morrison, his wife and daughter, and his maiden sister, Charlotte, a seemingly meek middle-aged woman who's spent her life attending to the needs of others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Like the river upon which they're traveling, however, Charlotte contains hidden depths. A chance encounter with a fellow passenger in Coblenz sparks a Damascene moment, unleashing in her a sudden and violent awakening of memory, fear, and sexual desire. As the travelers are swept onward to Cologne, Charlotte wrestles with what Lauren Groff in her foreword to this new edition describes as \"a subtle and total derangement of understanding,\" eventually surging toward a moment of crisis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eRhine Journey\u003c\/i\u003e is \"a patient and cunning representation of the intimacies of a repressed and wasted life\" (\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e) by a novelist \"incapable of writing a bad or inelegant sentence\" (\u003ci\u003eHudson Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnn Schlee \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Connecticut in 1934 and spent parts of her childhood and adolescence in Egypt, Sudan, Khartoum, and Eritrea. She went to boarding school in England and read English at Somerville College, Oxford. In 1957 she married artist Nick Schlee, brought up their four children, and wrote five children's novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Vandal\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 1980 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. \u003ci\u003eRhine Journey\u003c\/i\u003e, the first of her novels for adults, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981. Subsequently she combined her writing with teaching, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Groff\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven books, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Vaster Wilds\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMatrix\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFlorida\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 16, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256747442425,"sku":"9781961341098","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/aqChoUKVmz9781961341098_603b5cba-2a07-46b4-bc63-b69abde80e42.webp?v=1768738521","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/rhine-journey-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}