{"product_id":"9781476616339","title":"Howard Frank Mosher and the Classics: Echoes in the Vermont Writer's Works","description":"Howard Frank Mosher has spent the greater part of his career depicting a relatively isolated section of Vermont known as the Northeast Kingdom. Yet, even as he writes about that particular area in the Green Mountain State, he is investigating age-old themes from among the best English and American literary works. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eDisappearances\u003c\/i\u003e (1977), signaled the arrival of a master craftsman harkening us back to Melville’s \u003ci\u003eBilly Budd\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, in terms of humankind’s struggle against an ever present evil.     A full 33 years after the publication of his first novel, the Vermont author, in \u003ci\u003eWalking to Gatlinburg\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), examined the polarity between cowardice and honor. In the intervening years, between \u003ci\u003eDisappearances\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGatlinburg\u003c\/i\u003e, Mosher explored crucial matters such as the disappearing wilderness, industrialization, black male\/white female encounters, the necessity of humor, the quest for salvation, and the immortality of romantic love, all issues that he delved into as he staked out a unique terrain within the pantheon of Bunyan, Shakespeare, Dreiser, Twain, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Harper Lee, and others.","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company, Incorporated Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47170384330992,"sku":"9781476616339","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781476616339_p0.jpg?v=1763608419","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781476616339","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}