Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan Jackie Morris Their strange and moving meeting

Their strange and moving meeting illuminates for the aviator many of life's universal truths

and the last thing you would ever consider getting rid of

Born in 1850 in Edinburgh

It includes Metamorphosis

and The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan Jackie Morris Their strange and moving meetingFrom the winner of the Man Booker Prize. Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan's debut novel, is widely regarded as a classic in Australian literature. Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning. Beset by visions at once horrible and fabulous, he relives not just his own life but that of his family and forebears. In the rainforest waters that rush over him he sees those lives stripped of their surface realities,