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The Road to Walden North: A Novel
Shelia Post
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Description for The Road to Walden North: A Novel
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140. .
In The Road to Walden North, New England author Sheila Post offers timely insights for a new age still grappling with issues raised by Thoreau over 150 years ago. An elegiac Walden revisited, this resplendent novel invites readers to accompany the transcendental journey of Harvard Professor Dr. Kate Brownafrom talking the talk of theory to walking the walk of experience along the less traveled road of Thoreauvian simplicity . While deftly engaging with the motifs of Thoreau's classic, chapter by chapter, The Road to Walden North also transcends its literary context, through its richly nuanced chronicle of the life-altering interactions ... Read more
In The Road to Walden North, New England author Sheila Post offers timely insights for a new age still grappling with issues raised by Thoreau over 150 years ago. An elegiac Walden revisited, this resplendent novel invites readers to accompany the transcendental journey of Harvard Professor Dr. Kate Brownafrom talking the talk of theory to walking the walk of experience along the less traveled road of Thoreauvian simplicity . While deftly engaging with the motifs of Thoreau's classic, chapter by chapter, The Road to Walden North also transcends its literary context, through its richly nuanced chronicle of the life-altering interactions ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Green Writers Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
678 g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
VT, United States
ISBN
9780996135764
SKU
V9780996135764
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About Shelia Post
A former college associate professor and specialist in Transcendentalism, Sheila Post, Ph.D., (The University of Chicago), taught American literature for over a decade in New England before deciding to write her own. With various publications in academic journals and with prestigious university presses, she now writes novels, essays, and blogs about the simple, the natural, the local, and the transcendental. ... Read more
Reviews for The Road to Walden North: A Novel
Sheila Post's fascinating and originalThe Road to Walden Northis written in the tradition of Wendell Berry'sJayber Crowand Annie Dillard'sPilgrim at Tinker Creek.
Howard Frank Mosher, author ofWhere the Rivers Flow North An entertaining, literary ride through the tamed halls of academia to the wilds of a Walden of the north. Delivered with a compelling smorgasbord of literary tidbits along ... Read more
Howard Frank Mosher, author ofWhere the Rivers Flow North An entertaining, literary ride through the tamed halls of academia to the wilds of a Walden of the north. Delivered with a compelling smorgasbord of literary tidbits along ... Read more