02060cam a2200397 a 4500 16980390 OSt 20251125100903.0 110928s2012 mau 000 f eng 2011036975 9780547746500 hbk. 0547746504 hbk. 16980390 (OCoLC)744294554 DLC eng DLC YDX BTCTA YDXCP BDX IEB JAO DLC pcc f-mw--- PS3570.H4 L69 2012 813/.54 23 Theroux, Paul. The lower river / Paul Theroux. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. 323 p. ; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Ellis 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? Self-realization Fiction. Africa Fiction. Adventure fiction. gsafd Fiction. lcgft https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026339 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 0 2854 2854 0 0 ddc 0 0 RGS RGS AG 2025-11-25 0 FIC THE 3062 2025-11-25 10:10:07 2025-11-25 BK