· The River is a coming-of-age story and an elegy for childhood. The main character is Harriet, on the cusp of adolescence and troubled by the complexities of life. Her ambitions to be a writer and her first success with a piece published to family acclaim in the local newspaper might be based on Rumer Godden herself. Harriet's river was a great slowly flowing mile-wide river between banks of mud and white sand, with fields flat to the horizon, jute fields and rice fields under a blue weight of sky. 'If there is any space in me,' Harriet said, when she was grown up, 'it is from that sky.' 'How beautiful it is,' said Harriet. Its beauty penetrated into the heat and the ache of the hollowness inside her/5(). 22 rows · The River; Kingfishers Catch Fire; The Greengage Summer; Full Novels List; Children’s. .
The River: A Novel - Kindle edition by Godden, Rumer. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The River: A Novel. Director Jean Renoir's entrancing first color feature--shot entirely on location in India--is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold. Based in part on Rumer Godden's personal experiences and informed by her love of the Indian continent, where she spent the better part of her early life, The Peacock Spring is a beautiful and heartbreaking novel of loss of innocence and coming-of-age from the acclaimed author of Black Narcissus and The River.
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