To the River BUKOWSKI in a poor but vibrant

in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples

At a word from Henry

she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life

She befriends Karin and Fredrik

offering a nuanced look at the tension between idealism and reality

To the River BUKOWSKI in a poor but vibrantOver sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology and folklore. Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.