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Yes, the river is beautiful, and the country it flows through is likewise pastoral and the river is very real. In america access is always about architecture and never about human beings. John hockenberry author john hockenberry, a former reporter for npr, is a correspondent on dateline nbc and the author of the national bestseller moving violations, which was nominated for the national book critics circle award for nonfiction. A river out of eden sounds like it might be a very pastoral and peaceful novel about a beautiful river. It is a departure in the sense that its my first novel. A river out of eden, book by john hockenberry paperback.
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