9780140077483: Where the Rivers Flow North

Synopsis

Seven stories deal with a pretty hitchhiker, an elderly woman's hard life, the Vermont winter, a dying man, a weakened bridge, a fall fishing trip, and an old moonshiner

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Mosher writes stories, almost folk tales at times, built out of lost and forgotten history, rooted in a strong sense of place, inhabited with colorful characters. His terrain may be specific, but his themes are universal. USA Today"

Mosher is a remarkably good observer of nature as well as a born storyteller. Boston Herald"

Mosher has a fine knack for evoking natural beauty an otter sliding off an icy log, a loon whooping over a dark lake and he has a convincing sense of adventure. Los Angeles Times"

With each book, Mosher fleshes out more of his literary turf, a frontier brimming with men and women who follow their own rules. Boston Globe"

"Mosher writes stories, almost folk tales at times, built out of lost and forgotten history, rooted in a strong sense of place, inhabited with colorful characters. His terrain may be specific, but his themes are universal."-- "USA Today"

"Mosher is a remarkably good observer of nature as well as a born storyteller."-- "Boston Herald"

About the Author

Described by the Los Angeles Times as "a combination of Ernest Hemingway, Henry David Thoreau, and Jim Harrison," HOWARD FRANK MOSHER is the author of The True Account: A Novel of the Lewis and Clark and Kinneson Expeditions, A Stranger in the Kingdom (winner of the 1991 New England Book Award for fiction), and other books. His novel Marie Blythe has also been reissued by UPNE. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, and the American Civil Liberties Union Award for Excellence in the Arts.

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