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Once Upon a River

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Hardcover | Pages: 348 pages

Rating: 3.69 | 7209 Users | 1262 Reviews

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Title	:	Once Upon a River
Author	:	Bonnie Jo Campbell
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 348 pages
Published	:	July 5th 2011 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Coming Of Age. Adult Fiction. Adult. Adventure. Survival

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Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier.

After the violent death of her father, in which she is complicit, Margo takes to the Stark River in her boat, with only a few supplies and a biography of Annie Oakley, in search of her vanished mother. But the river, Margo's childhood paradise, is a dangerous place for a young woman traveling alone, and she must be strong to survive, using her knowledge of the natural world and her ability to look unsparingly into the hearts of those around her. Her river odyssey through rural Michigan becomes a defining journey, one that leads her beyond self-preservation and to the decision of what price she is willing to pay for her choices.

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Original Title:	Once Upon a River
ISBN:	0393079899 (ISBN13: 9780393079890)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Margo Crane
Literary Awards:	Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2011)

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4 1/2 stars. A rather somber literary tale about a 17 year old girl from the backwoods of Michigan, where she lives hunting and fishing amidst her kin who live next to the Stark River. An unfortunate sexual encounter with her uncle leads to tragedy, and she runs off to live on her own down the river a short way, with an inherited teak boat. She's a very independent girl, a dead eye shot, and a bit of a mix between the storied Indian maiden (though she's white), Annie Oakley, and Huck Finn. She

Reading a Bonnie Jo Campbell book is like sitting down for a cuppa, or a cold one, with your very best gal pal. You can let loose and relax, kick your shoes off, loosen your girdle, because she does, her story does, the way it weaves in and around you and floats you along, easy, easy. Just like a river. No pretenses. Nearly effortless. No masks required, because Campbell will see through them, or, more accurately, doesnt seem to have a clue that masks exist. She is what she is, and her books

This is a book about a teenage girl in 1980's rural Michigan who is raised alongside a river and doesn't really have much of a family. Unpleasant events occur, and she ends up a drifter, living on the river, shooting animals for food, and both being attracted to and repelled by other people. I can't decide how I felt about this book. Some parts I found mesmerizing, some boring. In some ways I liked trying to get inside her head and could relate to her, and in others I really couldn't (even if I

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.)(Originally written for Daniel Casey's Gently Read Literature.)The more critical examinations of novels I do, the more I'm starting to realize that our enjoyment of them -- and I mean in this case a deep, lasting enjoyment that stays with you even years later -- relies not just on the typical issues of

This is an advance reader copy that I won through Goodreads Giveaways. It is the first book I've read by this author, but, I don't think it will be the last! Campbell presents an excellent character study through Once Upon a River. Her writing is taut and effective, and I think she does a great job in presenting Margot Crane, the 16 year old protagonist of her story, as a complicated combination of austere self-sufficiency and razor sharp naturalist intelligence alongside a simultaneously naive

Would it be enough to say, "This is a superb book. READ IT"? Because the reviews of this book made me want to NOT read it, but somehow the book lured me anyway. Essentially it's the story of a teen-age girl who is raped and abandoned and runs away from home to live by her wits -- her rifle, her ability to skin animals and catch fish and build fires, her knowledge of nature's power and its gifts. Mostly people who live by their wits in books lie and steal and eat out of dumpsters. This young girl

"The Stark River flowed around the oxbow at Murrayville the way blood flowed through Margo Crane's heart."Odysseus was a legendary and cunning hero on a journey to find home, and lived by his guile. Annie Oakley was a sharpshooter with an epic aim, living by her wits. Siddhartha traveled on a spiritual quest to find himself, and defined the river by its timelessness--always changing, always the same. Now, in Bonnie Jo Campbell's adventure story, we are introduced to sixteen-year-old Margo Crane,