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Tales from the Edge of the Woods
Willem Lange
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Description for Tales from the Edge of the Woods
Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; RN; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 204 x 10. Weight in Grams: 140.
If you live here by choice , Willem Lange writes of the northern New England he's called home for half a century, you pay your dues, take what you can get, and endure what you have to. It's well worth it . These eighteen reminiscences, character sketches, and sometimes heart-rending accounts of life among the ubiquitous pines and unyielding granite show a deep reverence and an abiding respect for this unique corner of the world. We meet, for example, Baddy, the crusty timber camp cook whose love of hunting ends the day he witnesses the needless death of a ... Read more
If you live here by choice , Willem Lange writes of the northern New England he's called home for half a century, you pay your dues, take what you can get, and endure what you have to. It's well worth it . These eighteen reminiscences, character sketches, and sometimes heart-rending accounts of life among the ubiquitous pines and unyielding granite show a deep reverence and an abiding respect for this unique corner of the world. We meet, for example, Baddy, the crusty timber camp cook whose love of hunting ends the day he witnesses the needless death of a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Green Writers Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
140g
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
VT, United States
ISBN
9780996267687
SKU
V9780996267687
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-16
About Willem Lange
Willem Lange is a short-story writer, commentator and host on Vermont Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Television. He also has a weekly column in The Valley News, the major newspaper in the NH/VT Upper Valley area. In addition to the Yuletide readings of his Christmas story, Favor Johnson, a staple on Public Radio for fifteen years, his annual readings ... Read more
Reviews for Tales from the Edge of the Woods
Mr. Willem Lange is the perfect New England memoirist: experienced, curious, shrewd, self-deprecating, amused, and affectionate. He writes of upcountry villages, wood lots, deer camps, log jobs, schoolrooms, and cellar holes, but his real subject is mortality. On the whole, he's for it.
Castle Freeman, Jr., author of Judgment Hill and Go With Me When a world-class writer concentrates ... Read more
Castle Freeman, Jr., author of Judgment Hill and Go With Me When a world-class writer concentrates ... Read more