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Woodsburner: Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner

Woodsburner: Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:John PipkinPublish date:2010-05-04Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780307455321ISBN-10:307455327UPC:9780307455321Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Biographical, Small Town & RuralAward:2009 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize Winner - First Novel AwardSize:8.12 x 5.32 x 0.84 inchesWeight:0.6195Product ID:SCBAA40MG0
Set against the backdrop of a devastating forest fire that Henry David Thoreau accidentally set in 1844, John Pipkin's novel brilliantly illuminates the mind of the young philosopher at a formative moment in his life and in the life of the young nation.

The Thoreau of Woodsburner is a lost soul, resigned to a career designing pencils for his father's factory while dreaming of better things. On the day of the fire, his path crosses those of three very different people, each of whom also harbors a secret dream. Oddmund Hus, a shy Norwegian farmhand, pines for the wife of his brutal employer. Eliot Calvert, a prosperous bookseller, is also a hilariously inept aspiring playwright. Caleb Dowdy preaches fire and brimstone to his followers through an opium haze. Each of their lives, like Thoreau's, will be changed forever by the fire.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780307455321ISBN-10:307455327UPC:9780307455321Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Biographical, Small Town & RuralAward:2009 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize Winner - First Novel AwardSize:8.12 x 5.32 x 0.84 inchesWeight:0.6195Product ID:SCBAA40MG0
JOHN PIPKIN was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and he holds degrees from Washington and Lee University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Rice University. He has taught writing and literature at Saint Louis University, Boston University, and Southwestern University. He currently lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and son.
Publisher: Anchor Books

Awards

🏆 2009 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize Winner - First Novel Award

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John Pipkin

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