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WOODSBURNER; A Novel
by Pipkin, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Like New/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385528655
- ISBN 13
- 9780385528658
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Like New/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the titlepage, 8vo, tan quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over brown boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with faint image of Walden Pond & bright flame, 365, [366] pages + [2] Author's Note + [2] Acknowledgements + [2] A Note About the Author + [2] A Note on the Type. EXCEPTIONAL SIGNED DEBUT NOVEL: Tight, bright, very clean in comparable dj. No previous owner or remainder marks.<br /> <br /> John Pipkin is the author of two novels. Woodsburner won the New York Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Massachusetts Center for the Book Novel Prize, and the Texas Institute of Letters Stephen Turner Prize for First Novel. His second novel, The Blind Astronomer's Daughter (Bloomsbury, 2016) was named Book of the Month by The London Times.
Synopsis
JOHN PIPKIN was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and he holds degrees from Washington and Lee University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Rice University. He has taught writing and literature at Saint Louis University, Boston University, and Southwestern University. He currently lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and son.
Reviews
On May 25 2009, Feeney said:
Aside from Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES, Thornton Wilder's THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY may have been the first tale to ask one of literature's most enduring questions: what were a bunch of ostensibly unrelated people all doing at the same place on the same catastrophic day? In Wilder's case, the event was the collapse of the grandest, highest pedestrian rope bridge in all South America. In the case of Professor John Pipkin's first novel, WOODBURNER, the occasion that unites diverse people in Concord Woods, Massachusetts is a fire inadvertently started on a dry windy day by a hungry man wanting to make fish chowder for himself during a river outing. That historically attested fire burner was none other than Henry David Thoreau. And when all was over, this future preacher of environmentalism had burned 300 woodland acres. His life intersects those of a half dozen other real and imaginary characters. All their lives are transformed by the experience of fighting and philosophizing about the fire. In another few months Thoreau will retire to a cabin on Walden Pond, an area untouched by but close to the great fire. "He will keep the injured woods company until they revive. And, if they will have him, he will become their steward." -OOO-
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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8493
- Title
- WOODSBURNER; A Novel
- Author
- Pipkin, John
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385528655
- ISBN 13
- 9780385528658
- Publisher
- Nan A. Talese / Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- Concord, Thoreau, Walden, environment, forest fire, 1844,
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BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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