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Between Two Rivers
A Novel
by Nicholas Rinaldi


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The stories of the tenants and concierge of Echo Terrace, a New York condominium.

HarperCollins, 448 pages
06/01/2004
$24.95

ISBN: 0060578769

Fiction
Drama
General Literature & Fiction

All reviews are classified as one of five grades: Outstanding (4 points), Favorable (3), Mixed (2), Unfavorable (1) and Terrible (0). To calculate the Metascore, we divide total points achieved by the total points possible (i.e., 4 x the number of reviews), with the resulting percentage (multiplied by 100) being the Metascore. Learn more...

Entertainment Weekly Emily Mead

Though his narration sounds deceptively prim at first, Rivers gradually hypnotizes and charms, coaxing beauty from the tragic and surreal.

Kirkus Reviews

Superb entertainment: some of the characterizations are superficial, but what counts is the warmhearted celebration of New Yorkers and their restless curiosity.

Booklist Joanne Wilkinson

Rinaldi effortlessly intertwines the political and the personal. With lavish and loving detail, he invokes the human experience--weddings and wars, art and commerce, births and funerals. A beautiful, emotionally uplifting tribute to the human spirit. [15 April 2004, p. 1425]

Boston Globe Karen Campbell

At its heart, "Between Two Rivers" is a fascinating dissection of disparate lives whose common threads are the building that forms the community in which they live and the man who is that building's human face.

Library Journal Joanna M. Burkhardt

Rinaldi's characters are varied and appealing, and the mesh of events and personalities is beautifully crafted, giving the reader a wide range of absorbing scenarios to consider. Highly recommended.

Publishers Weekly

These are complex, moving stories without straightforward resolutions... and if they feel a bit overwritten sometimes, Rinaldi compensates for this with multifaceted and memorable characters.

The New York Times Book Review Adam Mazmanian

Rinaldi... indulges his characters in their untidy lives, and readers who do the same will find their patience rewarded.

Wall Street Journal Jeffrey Trachtenberg

In a city with eight million stories, this is one worth picking up.

Washington Post Choire Sicha

Between Two Rivers reveals itself to be a very gentle -- and quite deserved -- polemic against the monstrousness of man.

The average user rating for this book is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
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Caroline C gave it a10:
These personalities will stay with me forever. A wonderful book. I am off to the library this afternoon and I shall search for other books by Nicholas Rinaldi.

Andrew S gave it a9:
I loved this book. In spite of it being a rather long book at nearly 500 pages, and me being a very slow reader, it only took me 3 days to read. Its strength is its glorious characterisation with the huge majority being so full of depth and credibility, you feel like you've gotten to know real people once you've read this book. A must - read

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Between Two Rivers A Novel by Nicholas Rinaldi

Between Two Rivers
A Novel
by Nicholas Rinaldi