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Title: Where the Rivers Flow North by Howard Frank Mosher ISBN: 0-14-007748-0 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Can't put down type of book
Comment: I am a hypercritcal reader and I love it when I pick up a book I cannot stop reading. I have subsequently ordered all of Mosher's books and cannot wait to read them. Mosher is not a good writer he is a great American writer. He builds character and place like the master he is. Thank you Mr. Mosher.
Rating: 5
Summary: MOSHER DESERVES WIDER ATTENTION
Comment: I'm saddened to see far too many people pigeon-hole Howard Frank Mosher as a 'writer of regional interest' -- maybe only those who live along the Mississippi should read Mark Twain, then. True, Mosher's books all take place in Vermont -- but these are such well-written, absorbing stories, the characters so unforgettable, that any one who appreciates fine literature can thoroughly enjoy them.
This volume collects 6 of Mosher's short stories along with the title novella -- the latter being possibly his most well-known work, having been made into an exceptional film with the amazingly-talented Rip Torn in the role of a lifetime as Noel Lord, Mosher's cantankerous ex-lumberjack. Lord is mentioned in some of the other stories, as well as in some of Mosher's novels -- and other characters make appearances in more than one work as well.
Set in 1927 Vermont, 'Where the rivers flow north' takes the familiar theme of the rugged individualist going up against the evil, unfeeling corporation, and breathes new life into it. Mosher's flowing style, combined with his incredible ability to bring to the printed page all the nuances of his characters' personalities -- warts and all -- give this and all of his works the finishing touches that only a fine craftsman can give. Noel Lord's Native American housekeeper/wife, Bangor, is one of the most memorable characters you'll ever run across. She and Lord have a classic yin-yang relationship that, most likely, neither one would acknowledge. A reader from any part of the nation can get inside these people, can feel and experience everything that happens to them -- and any time we can do that, we can learn and we can grow.
The characters in all of the stories here are, as in all of Mosher's works, vividly drawn -- Alabama Jones, the innocent-but-worldly aspiring carnival performer -- Burl, an old woman lying in a nursing home waiting to die, looking back at her life with a combination of bitterness and longing -- Eban and Walter, brothers, neighbors, at odds in their life over things large and small, but brothers -- a man dying, clinging to life through a kept peacock -- a boy passes through a coming-of-age event, a flood, which changes forever the way he views both his brother and his father -- another man, Henry Coville, makes some painful recollections and decisions as he feels the end of his life approach. Mosher paints them all with the deft brush strokes of an artist who intimately knows his subjects and the landscape in which their lives are played out.
Howard Frank Mosher is an immensely talented, always entertaining writer -- he deserves to be widely read, and what a treat is awaiting those who read him for the first time...!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book!
Comment: After I found out that my in-laws knew Howard Mosher personally and my husband had him as a teacher and coach in school and hung out with Howard's kids in high school I HAD to read a book written by him. This is the first book I read by Howard and I can't wait to read more. What a great illustration of Vermont in the early 1900's!
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Title: North Country : A Personal Journey by Howard Frank Mosher ISBN: 0395901391 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 08 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Fall of the Year by Howard Frank Mosher ISBN: 0618082360 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 11 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Disappearances: A Novel by Howard Frank Mosher ISBN: 0879235241 Publisher: David R Godine Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Marie Blythe by Howard Frank Mosher, Howard F. Mosher ISBN: 014007659X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Stranger in the Kingdom: A Novel by Howard Frank Mosher ISBN: 0618240101 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 04 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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