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Rapids

By Tim Parks

Rapids

By Tim Parks

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In the dramatic landscape of the Italian Alps a group of English canoeists arrive for an 'introduction to white water.' Camping eating and paddling together six adults and nine adolescents seem set to enjoy what their leader insists on calling a 'community experience.' Their hosts are Clive a taciturn figure and Michela his fragile girlfriend. Joining the group late are Vince a banker trying to make sense of the flotsam of his existence and his teenage daughter whom he feels moving inexorably away from him.
The dangerous river manages to bring out the group's qualities and failings in the most urgent fashion provoking sudden conflicts and unexpected shifts of alliance. An ideal love affair breaks down and an apparently impossible one timidly buds. A banal disagreement turns violent. Meanwhile the hottest summer on record is filling the glacier-fed rivers with a melt water so wild that it is surely unwise of the distracted instructors to launch their party into the last day's descent of the upper Aurina...
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
258
Release Date:
2017-06-05
Publication Date:
2017-06-05
Publisher:
Vintage
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1784706329
ISBN13:
9781784706326
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
311 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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