Between Two Rivers

Plot introduction

Reception

• Kirkus Reviews summed up their review with 'Superb entertainment: some of the characterizations are superficial, but what counts is the warmhearted celebration of New Yorkers and their restless curiosity'
• Popmatters praised the novel as 'a terrific book. With rich characterization and realistic settings, it offers one of the very best literary portraits of modern Manhattan'.
• Virginia Quarterly Review was also positive :'Rinaldi has created interesting stories for his complex characters and these stories are beautifully told and tied to historic events. One feels Echo Terrace is a real place, and at the end of the novel it is sad to have to say good-bye to these people who have shown us not only New York in miniature, but life as well.'
• Publishers Weekly had some reservations but was generally positive: "These are complex, moving stories without straightforward resolutions—as one character remarks, "Life is heavy, it weighs"—and if they feel a bit overwritten sometimes, Rinaldi compensates for this with multifaceted and memorable characters."

  Publication history

• 2004, US, Harpercollins,, Pub date 01 Jan 2004, Hardback
• 2004, UK, Bantam,, Pub date 01 Sep 2004, Hardback
• 2005, US, Harper Perennial,, Pub date 31 May 2005, Paperback
• 2005, UK, Black Swan,, Pub date 01 Jun 2005, Paperback