Woodsburner a novel

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  • Author: Pipkin, John
    Contributor:

    Recorded Books, Inc.

    ,

    Strozier, Henry

    Summary:

    In his scintillating debut, John Pipkin fictionalizes an ignoble event in noted naturalist Henry David Thoreau's life. One year before his historic retreat to the woods around Walden pond, Thoreau struck a match and carelessly started a mammoth fire that would go on to consume 300 acres of forest and farmland. "A superb historical fiction as well as a complex and provocative novel of ideas-Pulitzer Prize material."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review

    Genre: Biographical fiction, Historical fiction
    Subject(s): Fiction
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md. , [Prince Frederick, Md.] , Recorded Books , [Distributed by] RBdigital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781490666044

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Recorded Books, Inc.

Strozier, Henry

Abstract

In his scintillating debut, John Pipkin fictionalizes an ignoble event in noted naturalist Henry David Thoreau's life. One year before his historic retreat to the woods around Walden pond, Thoreau struck a match and carelessly started a mammoth fire that would go on to consume 300 acres of forest and farmland. "A superb historical fiction as well as a complex and provocative novel of ideas-Pulitzer Prize material."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Genre
Biographical fiction
Historical fiction
Subject
Fiction
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Prince Frederick, Md.

[Prince Frederick, Md.]

Recorded Books

[Distributed by] RBdigital

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