Howard Frank Mosher. (2015). God's Kingdom: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Howard Frank Mosher. 2015. God's Kingdom: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Howard Frank Mosher, God's Kingdom: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2015.

Howard Frank Mosher. God's Kingdom: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2015.

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   • bioText: Howard Frank Mosher (1942-2017) is the author of more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction, including Northern Borders and Disappearances, both made into major motion pictures. Mosher received Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, the New England Book Award, and the 2011 New England Independent Booksellers Association's President's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts. Born in the Catskill Mountains, Mosher lived in Vermont's fabled Northeast Kingdom, "God's Kingdom," for all of his adult life.
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Howard Frank Mosher is one of America's most acclaimed writers. His fiction, set in the world of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, chronicles the intertwining family histories of the natives, wanderers, outcasts, and fugitives-white, Native American, escaped slaves fleeing north, French Canadians, and others-who settled in this remote and beautiful place.
God's Kingdom explores the Kinneson family through the coming of age of the heir, Jim, and its rich and complicated history. Earnest and innocent, a bright high school student, Jim grows curious about the unspoken "trouble in the family" that haunts his father, a small-town newspaper editor, and his grandfather, a raconteur who keeps the Kinnesons' secrets to himself. Layer by layer, tale by tale, sorting out fact from deliberately obscured legend, Jim explores the Kinnesons' long relationship with others in the Kingdom, culminating in a discovery that forever changes his life and place in that world. Beginning with a magical Thanksgiving Day hunting trip in the autumn mountains, and ending with Jim on the brink of leaving home to find life-and perhaps love-on the other side of the ridge, God's Kingdom unfolds with the patient delight of a master storyteller.

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   • source: Stephen King
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     "This is American fiction at its very best, a rip-roaring story full of hilarity and heartbreak. I finished it feeling better about myself and life in general. God's Kingdom is the good stuff, the very best stuff, honest and emotionally resonant. Don't miss it."

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   • source: Richard Russo
   • content: "Over the years Mosher's beloved Vermont "Kingdom" has become one of America's most magical literary places."
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   • source: Howard Norman, author of Next Life Might Be Kinder
   • content: "Howard Frank Mosher's stunning new novel, God's Kingdom, begins as a coming-of-age story, and ends up an epic work of genius. Not since Hemingway's Nick Adams has there been a character so expertly and lovingly written as Jim Kinneson. For decades in his indispensable novels, Howard Frank Mosher has refracted Vermont's Northeast Kingdom into historical precincts of stark reality, composed hardscrabble human music, drawn landscapes seemingly seanced up from before the Age of Reason, and played out Fate like slowly-building storms in his character's hearts. He is the rarest thing in literature: an original. Vermont is Mr. Mosher's literary kingdom and he rules it with a bittersweet pen pressed hard to the page."
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     August 1, 2015
     Mosher (The Great Northern Express, 2012, etc.) finds a coming-of-age story in God's Kingdom, "up in the little known mountains of northern Vermont hard by the Canadian border." The tale follows Kinneson fathers and sons across the centuries, as revealed by the curiosity of high schooler and budding writer Jim Kinneson during the early 1950s. Described in Prairie Home Companion-like storytelling chapters, the Kingdom Kinnesons originate with Charles, who trekked into "Territory but Little Known" in 1759 and led a massacre of Abenaki Indians, only to return later and marry Molly Molasses, an Abenaki. In the early 19th century, "Abolition Jim" Kinneson was killed by federal troops because he led God's Kingdom to secede from the United States over the issue of slavery. In blackly comic stories, often melancholy or ripe with realism, characters are shaped by a land of isolated beauty, where winter weather can linger far below zero. Teetotaling Kinnesons once operated the Water of Life whiskey distillery, and they live on the "farm that wasn't," which only begins to flourish in Jim's time under the stewardship of the itinerant Black Canadian Dubois family. Sadly, it's young Gaetan Dubois, math genius and hockey demon, who learns "the great dangers of this place they called God's Kingdom lay closer to home." Amid hunting and fishing, baseball and school, Jim falls in love with a beautiful girl from the Ile d'Illusion, worships his grandfather, and uncovers the ugly truth about "the trouble in the family" between great-grandfather "Mad Charlie" and his best friend, the Rev. Doctor Pliny Templeton, an escaped slave, Princeton seminary graduate, war hero, and founder of Kingdom Common Academy. No Catcher in the Rye angst here. Instead you'll find a welcome dose of nostalgic realism laced with hard-edged wisdom.

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     October 1, 2015
     Northeastern Vermont is beautiful and daunting, seductive when the leaves turn crimson, terrifying when blizzard winds whip down from Canada. It was called God's Kingdom by its earliest settlers, who hoped it wouldn't turn into a hell on earth. To that unknown came Scottish immigrant Charles Kinneson, whose generations of descendants would contribute in noble and notorious ways to the lore of the region. Destined to be his family's scribe, young Jim Kinneson pays particular attention to the tales told by his grandfather and assorted relatives, finding himself repulsed by acts of barbarity and attracted to the occasions when justice was properly, if inventively, served. In his eleventh book of fiction, a novel-in-stories, much-acclaimed Vermont writer Mosher's (The Great Northern Express, 2012) thoughtful, clear-eyed unraveling of small-town life, warts and all, is powerful in its simplicity and soaring in its embrace of universal truths. And plucky, bright Jim Kinneson deserves a place in the pantheon of other such laudable young men memorably rendered by the likes of Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, and Tony Earley.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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God's Kingdom explores the Kinneson family through the coming of age of the heir, Jim, and its rich and complicated history. Earnest and innocent, a bright high school student, Jim grows curious about the unspoken "trouble in the family" that haunts his father, a small-town newspaper editor, and his grandfather, a raconteur who keeps the Kinnesons' secrets to himself. Layer by layer, tale by tale, sorting out fact from deliberately obscured legend, Jim explores the Kinnesons' long relationship with others in the Kingdom, culminating in a discovery that forever changes his life and place in that world. Beginning with a...

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