num_pages: 344
description: From the best-selling author of The Dovekeepers, The River King confirms Alice Hoffman as "one of our quirkiest and most interesting novelists" (Jane Smiley, USA Today).People tend to stay in their place in the town of Haddan. The students at the prestigious prep school don't mix with locals. Even within the school, hierarchy rules as freshman and faculty members find out where they fit in and what is expected of them. But when a body is found in the river behind the school, a local policeman will walk into this enclosed world and upset it entirely. A story of surface appearances and the truths submerged below.
language: English
title: The River King
titlecomplete: The River King
genres: Magical Realism, Fantasy, Mystery, Chick Lit, Adult Fiction, Novels, Romance, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 10813
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Massachusetts Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Berkley