Castle Freeman, Jr., Author St. Martin's $25.95 (406p) ISBN 978-0-312-28261-5
Freeman's quiet but affecting sophomore novel (after Judgment Hill) follows the hapless former professor Mark Noon, who arrives in the small Vermont village of Bible Hill in the late 1960s to fulfill the demands of his late mother's will....
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Castle Freeman, Jr., Author Steerforth $21.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-58642-139-7
Like its young heroine, Lillian, Freeman's trim powerhouse is “a pistol.†The novelist and Old Farmer's Almanac
essayist sets this story of grim purpose in a rural Vermont of logging, lumber mills and “Lost Towns†beyond the reach of the...
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Castle Freeman, Jr., Author Steerforth $22.95 (164p) ISBN 978-1-58642-151-9
Freeman's pleasantly wicked fourth novel (after Go with Me
), set in smalltown rural Vermont, explores the moral choices of a good-hearted, meek sheriff. The laconic and gently self-deprecating sheriff, Lucian Wing, a middle-aged ex-navyman...
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Castle Freeman, Jr., Author Soho Press $14.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-939149-01-8
Ambrose, a backwater country town in Vermont, is the point of reference for these 11 stories. The title narrative begins in Mexico but moves back in time to Ambrose. More anecdote than story, the uneventful tale proceeds at a slow pace to recall the
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Castle Freeman, Jr., Author University Press of New England $26 (239p) ISBN 978-0-87451-832-0
The small Vermont town first seen in Freeman's short story collection, The Bride of Ambrose, serves as the setting of this intricate first novel. Tyler McClellan, a young Texas woman fleeing her menacing lover, is taken in by innkeeper Cordie...
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Castle Freeman, Jr., Author, Abigail Rorer, Author, Abigail Rorer, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-73098-0
For 14 years, Freeman has written the ``Farmer's Calendar'' column in the Old Farmer's Almanac. Here is a collection of choice pieces that capture the essence of year-round country living in New England. Among the topics are weather, wildife, the...
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