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John G. Pipkin
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In the spring of 1844,
American naturalist Henry David Thoreau
accidentally set fire to 300 acres of woods
near Walden Pond in Massachusetts. The
consequences of this fire, told through the
lives of four main characters, form the
narrative heart of this wonderful debut
novel.
WOODSBURNER brilliantly interweaves the
story of Thoreau, a young pencil maker by
trade; the unforgettable Oddmund Hus, a
Norwegian immigrant and farmhand who pines
for the love of a woman he cannot have;
bookseller Eliot Calvert, an aspiring but
largely unsuccessful playwright who must
choose between his business and his art; and
Caleb Dowdy, an opium-addicted Episcopal
minister who believes he can prove God’s
existence by seeking his own damnation. All
four men are leading lives of quiet
desperation when their encounter with
Thoreau’s fire alters them forever.
Seamlessly combining fiction and history,
WOODSBURNER chronicles these changed lives
against the background of a final compelling
character: the fire itself, which gains a
powerful personality as it progresses toward
the town and eats away at the Concord
landscape.
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