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1 online resource (195 pages) |
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June 1974 -- Bill Beloit, 18; March 1779 -- Israel Williams, Sr., 70; July 1962 -- Jean Kiteley, 33; May 1654 -- Gideon Child, 60; November 1963 -- Brian Kiteley, age 7; October 1965 -- Mike Nichols, 34; November 1963 -- Brian Kiteley, 7; April 1961 -- Ben Bradlee, 39; December 1826 -- Arius Fuller, 57; May 1968 -- Isabelle Cowley, ; July 1962 -- Jean Kiteley, 33; February 1680 -- Abigail Slaughter, 51; May 1968 -- George Cowley, 16; June 1965 -- Brian Kiteley, 8; August 1813 -- James Gray, 20; June 1965 -- Brian Kiteley, 8; May 1874 -- George Chaney, 40; May 1738 -- Medad Stoddard, 16. |
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May 1969 -- Richard Nixon, 56May 1738 -- Medad Stoddard, 16; July 1780 -- Joseph Hawley, 57; May 1968 -- Murray Kiteley, 39; May 1738 -- Tom Mathews, 35; June 1969 -- Geoffrey Kiteley, 13; June 1750 -- The firing of Jonathan Edwards; October 1970 -- Kate Cooke, 17; October 1731 -- Jonathan Edwards, 28; August 1970 -- Brian Kiteley, 13; March 1930 -- Calvin Coolidge, 58; July 1972 -- Brian Kiteley, 15; May 1927 -- Joseph Donais, 26; April 1972 -- Lisa McKinney, 42; May 1973 -- Geoffrey Kiteley, 18; December 1894; December 1894 -- Seth Cooke, 50; July 1973 -- Brian Kiteley, 16. |
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November 1674 -- Cornet Joseph Parsons, 56July 1973 -- Brian Kiteley, 16; May 1956 -- Newton Arvin, 55; October 1907 -- Molly Beck, 19; May 1985 -- Eric Kiteley, 82; June 1944 -- William Carlos Williams, 62; August 1969 -- Ellen Chase, 9; November 1852 -- Sojourner Truth, 55; July 1954 -- Eric Kiteley, 52; February 1777J -- oseph Hawley, 53; December 1985 -- Eric Kiteley, 83; December 1943 -- Mathias Weeks, 28; December 1985 -- Brian Kiteley, 29; July 1958 -- Sylvia Plath, 25; May 1987 -- Geoffrey Kiteley, 32; April 1949 -- Ludwig Wittgenstein, 60; April 1989 -- Alice Lazerowitz, 83. |
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September 1989 -- Brian Kiteley, 32October 1727 -- Sarah Edwards, 17; February 1944 -- Tom Andrews, 23; October 1993 -- Geoffrey Kiteley, 38; October 1942 -- Gary O'Dea, 23; August 1675 -- John Pynchon, 49; October 1942 -- Gary O'Dea, 23; November 1993 -- Brian Kiteley, 37; October 1942 -- Gary O'Dea, 23; July 1678 -- Cornet Joseph Parsons, 60; December 1993 -- Murray Kiteley, 63; December 1993 -- Geoffrey James Kiteley, 39; January 1062 -- Henrik Rafn, 25; August 1995Ellen Chase, 35; An Explanation and Some Thanks. |
| Summary |
The River Gods is a novel in fragments, a mix of fact and fiction, in which various inhabitants of the area around what is now Northampton, Massachusetts, from the eleventh century through the 1990s, speak of their lives and of the community, a place haunted by the pervasive melancholy of extinguished desire. Each of the voices--including a character named Brian Kiteley and his family, the original Native American inhabitants, the actor Richard Burton, Sojourner Truth, Richard Nixon, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jonathan Edwards, and many nameless others--ruminate on a past that is startlingly presen. |
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Massachusetts -- History -- Fiction.
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Massachusetts. |
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History. |
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Northampton (Mass.) -- History -- Fiction.
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Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kiteley, Brian. River Gods. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2011 9781573661515 |
| ISBN |
9781573668132 (electronic book) |
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1573668133 (electronic book) |
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