The patience of rivers
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Joseph Freda.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Family-owned business enterprises -- Fiction.; Camp sites, facilities, etc. -- Fiction.; Canoes and canoeing -- Fiction.; Young men -- Fiction.; Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- Fiction.; New York (State) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "It's the summer of 1969, and it feels like the rules have been suspended. The Woodstock festival is revving up at a neighbor's farm, the rock-and-roll culture is in full swing, astronauts are landing on the moon, and young men make plans to go to college...or to war. As eighteen-year-old Nick Lauria works the family campgrounds and leads canoe trips on the Delaware River, he feels the sting of first love and the fear-turned-pain of his friend's letters from Vietnam.

His parents, meanwhile, struggle to keep the family business - and themselves - intact against the blandishments and secret dealings of their business partner."--BOOK JACKET.