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  • Playing a typical 18-hole course, such as Downriver in Spokane, means traveling easily more than three miles.

    GeoffShackelford.com 2009

  • While one can find traces of Trollope's ensemble approach to the capital in earlier books – Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Iain Sinclair's Downriver spring to mind – it has taken the boom-and-bust noughties to restore this particular novel to the forefront of our cultural consciousness.

    The way we live now? Follow the money back to Anthony Trollope… 2012

  • Among the occupiers we met were a health care worker from Warren, whose family is barely making it financially; a 43-year-old, unemployed construction worker from Downriver; a middle-class health care analyst; a grandmother of four whose son had lost his home to foreclosure; a 22-year-old student at Henry Ford Community College, and an ex-Navy man, married with a young child and living in the suburbs.

    Ronald Aronson: What a Couple of Grandpas Learned at Occupy Detroit Ronald Aronson 2011

  • Among the occupiers we met were a health care worker from Warren, whose family is barely making it financially; a 43-year-old, unemployed construction worker from Downriver; a middle-class health care analyst; a grandmother of four whose son had lost his home to foreclosure; a 22-year-old student at Henry Ford Community College, and an ex-Navy man, married with a young child and living in the suburbs.

    Ronald Aronson: What a Couple of Grandpas Learned at Occupy Detroit Ronald Aronson 2011

  • Downriver in Louisiana, officials warned residents that even if a key spillway northwest of Baton Rouge were to be opened, residents could expect water 5- to 25-feet deep over parts of seven parishes.

    Memphis Evacuations Rise Amid Threat From River Associated Press 2011

  • Downriver, I could see the houses crowded in cheek by jowl on London Bridge itself.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Downriver, I could see the houses crowded in cheek by jowl on London Bridge itself.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Downriver, I could see the houses crowded in cheek by jowl on London Bridge itself.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Sinclair had a fair old go at the Lib Dems in Tower Hamlets in Downriver, but it's still a great book.

    Iain Sinclair: Banned by Labour, invited by Lib Dems 2008

  • Downriver, I could see the houses crowded in cheek by jowl on London Bridge itself.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

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