THE RIVER by Michael Neale

If you have never stood on a mountain top, watched the mist rise and open to a view of a raging waterfall that drops down into a gorge of smooth, flat river water, then Michael Neale can show it to you. His book, The River, is a marvelous journey through one man's life from boyhood to manhood. The use of the river as symbolism is felt from beginning to end, and much like a river flows, never the same from moment to moment or mile to mile, so is the life of Gabriel Clarke.
In Gabriel...