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Many Rivers to Cross
Author(s): Thomas Zigal (author) (Author)
- Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
- Publication Date: 30 Sept. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 0875655858
- ISBN-13: 9780875655857
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Editorial Reviews
Review
“This novel is awe-inspiring. With the agony and passion of a native son, Thomas Zigal has entered New Orleans’ heart of darkness after Katrina, after the flood. Zigal has been a superb writer of fiction for a long time, and his story of people flung awash and fighting for their lives in a place completely transformed is brave, frightening, and so dramatic that at times you have to get up and walk around the room. Joseph Conrad would have been proud to have his name on this.”–Jan Reid, author of Comanche Sundown and Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards
“Thomas Zigal is the real deal in every sense – a real storyteller who writes with enormous craft and boundless compassion.
Many Rivers to Cross, about the aftereffects of Hurricane Katrina, is suspenseful and deeply compelling – Zigal at his best, which is very, very good indeed.” –Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent and Reversible Errors“What a really good novel this is; crisp and dramatic, restrained and finely-tuned, immensely readable – and smart; in the way superb novels ought to be: personally useful in understanding the otherwise inexpressible.”–Richard Ford
About the Author
Thomas Zigal is the author of the critically acclaimed Kurt Muller mystery series, which includes Into Thin Air, Hardrock Stiff, and Pariah. His latest novel is The White League, which is the first volume of his New Orleans trilogy; Many Rivers to Cross is the second. A former vice president of the Texas Institute of Letters, he holds an MA degree from the Stanford Writing Program and is a member of the Authors Guild, the Mystery Writers of America, and the Writers League of Texas. Zigal has lived in many places including San Francisco, Aspen, Lafayette, Louisiana, New Orleans, and Switzerland, each of which have significantly impacted his works. Zigal currently lives in Austin, Texas.
