Jeffrey Lent
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The sweeping, intergenerational story of a Vermont family, from WWII to the dawning of the '60s--the most magisterial and moving novel of acclaimed author Jeffrey Lent's career. Katey Snow, seventeen, slips the pickup into neutral and rolls silently out of the driveway of her Vermont home, her parents, Oliver and Ruth, still asleep. She isn't so much running away as on a journey of discovery. She carries with her a packet of letters addressed to her...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"[A story that] deals with profoundly seminal American moments: the end of the Civil War, the religious freedom that was manifested in the Second Great Awakening, the last gasps of the Jeffersonian ideal of American yeomanry, the shadow on the horizon of the Industrial Revolution. At the heart of the novel are two men: one who has committed a horrific act, but is slowly revealed to be a man of honor and integrity; the other, a seemingly righteous...
4) Lost nation
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Opens with a man known only as Blood guiding an oxcart of rum toward the wild country high in New Hampshire, an ungoverned territory called the Indian Stream a land where the luckless of outlawed have made a fresh start."--Jacket.
