Meandering through the boondocks.(South Of the River)(Book review)

Publication: Spectator

Publication Date: 31-MAR-07

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SOUTH OF THE RIVER by Blake Morrison Chatto, [pounds sterling]17.99, pp. 516, ISBN 9780701180461 . [pounds sterling]14.39 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655

South of the River is a stadiumsized novel of over 500 pages. It has the scope and ambition of an American McNovel -- Don DeLillo's Underworld, say, or The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. At first it appears to be in narrative disarray, the plot leaping backwards and forwards in time. A theme soon emerges, however, as the disparate stories converge.

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