The Waters of Kronos

Hardcover, 175 pages

English language

Published 1960 by Alfred A. Knopf.

OCLC Number:
287907
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19783216

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In this haunting, often beautiful novel, Conrad Richter writes of the journey of John Donner, who goes back to the town where he was born, hoping to find the meaning of a deep malaise. If he can only return to the past, he feels he might be free. But the quest seems futile. The town he seeks lies at the bottom of a great modern dam made by the River Kronos.

How he is drawn back through the waters of Kronos, Time, into the past forms the narrative of John Donner's classical journey. He finds himself in his own clear, light-filled world of youth at a moment of double crisis in the lives of his richly varied family, the Donners, Morgans, and Scarletts. But they are still young. John Donner is an old man. When he tries to re-enter the old intimate family relationships, he is rejected as a stranger, …

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Subjects

  • Dams -- Design and construction -- Fiction
  • Autobiographical memory -- Fiction
  • Submerged lands -- Fiction
  • Pennsylvania -- Fiction

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