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John Pipkin
Dear Reader, My debut novel, WOODSBURNER, springs from a forgotten event in the life of one of America's iconic figures, Henry David Thoreau. On April 30, 1844, a year before he built his cabin on Walden Pond, Thoreau accidentally started a forest fire that destroyed three hundred acres of the Concord Woods and altered the landscape of American thought in a single day. On the day of the fire, Thoreau's path intersects with three local citizens haunted by their own unfulfilled dreams: Oddmund Hus, a Norwegian farmhand, pining for the woman he cannot have; Eliot Calvert, a prosperous bookseller and inept aspiring playwright; and Caleb Dowdy, an opium-addicted fire-and-brimstone preacher. Find out what Doris Kearns Goodwin, Sena Jeter Naslund (Ahab's Wife), Ron Rash (Serena) and others have said about WOODSBURNER by visiting my website: www.johnpipkin.com. For a chance to win a copy of my novel, email me at pipkinjohn@me.com. Happy Reading! John Pipkin |