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By the river

by Steven Herrick

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A fourteen-year-old describes, through prose poems, his life in a small Australian town in 1962, where, since their mother's death, he and his brother have been mainly on their own to learn about life, death, and love.

DeathBrothersSingle-parent familiesFictionFathers and sonsNovels in verseChild and youth fictionAustralia, fictionBrothers and sisters, fictionDeath, fictionChildren's fictionSingle-parent families, fiction