01765cam a2200337 a 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000240008802000210011203500130013303500210014604000570016704200080022404300120023205000240024408200160026810000190028424500370030326000480034030000210038833600260040933700280043533800270046352007790049065000310126965100210130065500300132165500760135116980390OSt20251125100903.0110928s2012    mau           000 f eng    a  2011036975  a9780547746500qhbk.  a0547746504qhbk.  a16980390  a(OCoLC)744294554  aDLCbengcDLCdYDXdBTCTAdYDXCPdBDXdIEBdJAOdDLC  apcc  af-mw---00aPS3570.H4bL69 201200a813/.542231 aTheroux, Paul.14aThe lower river /cPaul Theroux.  aBoston :bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,c2012.  a323 p. ;c24 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aEllis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short when he had to return to take over the family business. When his wife leaves him, and he is on his own, he realizes that there is one place for him to go: back to his village in Malawi, on the remote Lower River, where he can be happy again. Arriving at the dusty village, he finds it transformed: the school he built is a ruin, the church and clinic are gone, and poverty and apathy have set in among the people. They remember him--the White Man with no fear of snakes--and welcome him. But is his new life, his journey back, an escape or a trap? 0aSelf-realizationvFiction. 0aAfricavFiction. 7aAdventure fiction.2gsafd 7aFiction.2lcgft0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026339