Rhine Journey
by Ann Schlee
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It is the summer of 1851 and Charlotte Morrison is on holiday in Germany with her brother and his wife. Charlotte may be a spinster aunt with a seemingly sparse life, but beneath that quiet respectability lie unsuspected depths.Boating down the Rhine one day, Charlotte sights a fellow traveller, who releases the hissing floodwaters of her subconscious. Dark and dangerous, they sweep Charlotte towards the watershed of her life, stretching her imagination to its limit.Shortlisted for the show more Booker Prize in 1981, Ann Schlee's heady novel creates a tension that is as compelling as it is mysterious, forcing her characters to confront each other as well asthemselves over one hot summer abroad. show lessTags
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The story seems a bit quirky. Just some things seem a bit odd, unbelievable. The author does a good job of showing the relationships that a single victorian woman has with her family. It's all about the struggle she has choosing between the imposed obligations of her family and her own independence. I found some insights that I definitely could relate to.
Pearl ruled after 70 pages.
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Booker Prize
491 works; 62 members
Man Booker Prize Longlist 1981
7 works; 2 members
Authors from England
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Booker Prize Shortlist: Titles Not Yet Read
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Author Information
13+ Works 258 Members
Ann Schlee was raised in America and Cairo. She attended Oxford. Schlee was a teacher in America and began publishing young adult fiction in the 1970s. The Vandal won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award (1980). Ask Me No Questions was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors Book for Fiction (1982). Her first adult novel, Rhine Journey, was short-listed show more for the Booker Prize (1981). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Important places
- Rhine River; France
- Dedication
- To my companions on the Rhine in the summer of 1977.
- First words
- "The luggage has simply been left on the deck," said the Reverend Charles Morrison.
- Quotations
- "All her adult life she had lived in houses built of deep accretions of other people's lives. She had moved among them cautiously. But here, she might extend to the very walls and they would reflect back upon her, her plant ,... (show all) her sampler, things that were herself." p.63
"She pictured to herself those whitened cottage rooms where she might quietly extend herself, and moving from room to room, meet and recognize her self in forms unaltered by the pressures of others upon her." p.164 - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)My family is waiting for me.
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- Languages
- English, Spanish
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- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 13
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