Synopsis
Post-American Revolution teen Peter Loon is charged by his mother to find her long-lost love and along the way teams up with former-seafaring parson Zachariah, with whom he is swept up in a fierce territorial battle between wealthy landowners and hardscrabble homesteaders. 10,000 first printing.
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Review
A polished master of the cozy, with characters as colorful as all get-out. New York Times Return with Reid to a less cynical age. Reid's impersonation of a late-Enlightenment novelist is persuasive, and Peter himself is engagingly picaresque. The Instrumentalist Reid's one-man campaign to resurrect the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel is a campaign well worth enlisting in. Don't miss Peter Loon. [starred review] Kirkus Reid has an excellent sense of dramatic situation, draws shrewd characters, and makes good use of suspense. Writing with power, restraint, and light comic touch, he keeps a surprise till the last. [starred review] Booklist Hopeful ... a gentle and engaging reminder that America is more than a nation of individuals; it is also a nation of ideas. Bangor Daily News Van Reid's latest is sure to enlarge his circle of admirers. Baltimore Sun
About the Author
Van Reid's family has lived in Edgecomb, Maine, since the 1800s. Reid was a long-time bookseller and lives with his wife and children in a house Reid and his brother built on their family's land. He also wrote a series of novels about the Moosepath League which take place in the late 1800s on coastal Maine.
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