Marie Blythe

Howard Frank Mosher

Howard Frank Mosher was one of the best-loved writers of northern New England. One of his most vivid and memorable characters is Marie Blythe. At the dawn of the twentieth century, a young girl immigrates to Vermont from French Canada. She grows up confronting the grim realities of life with an indomitable spirit—nursing victims of a tuberculosis epidemic, enduring a miscarriage alone in the wilderness, and coping with the uncertainties of love. In Marie Blythe, Mosher has created a strong-minded, passionate, and truly memorable heroine. This edition features a new introduction by novelist Tom Barbash.

Paper: $19.95 | E-book: $18.95

ISBN-13: 9781684581375

Pages: 468 | Size: 5.5 in. x 8.5 in.

Date Published: December 26, 2022

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Brandeis University Press

Fiction

With each book, Mosher fleshes out more of his literary turf, a frontier brimming with men and women who follow their own rules.

Boston Globe

Reviews

Mosher writes stories, almost folk tales at times, built out of lost and forgotten history, rooted in a strong sense of place, inhabited with colorful characters. His terrain may be specific, but his themes are universal.

USA Today
Mosher has a fine knack for evoking natural beauty-an otter sliding off an icy log, a loon whooping over a dark lake-and he has a convincing sense of adventure.

Los Angeles Times
Mosher is a remarkably good observer of nature as well as a born storyteller.

Boston Herald
With each book, Mosher fleshes out more of his literary turf, a frontier brimming with men and women who follow their own rules.

Boston Globe

About the Author

Howard Frank Mosher

Described by the Los Angeles Times as “a combination of Ernest Hemingway, Henry David Thoreau, and Jim Harrison,” Howard Frank Mosher (1942–2017) was the author of Northern Borders, Where the Rivers Flow North, A Stranger in the Kingdom (winner of the New England Book Award for fiction), and other novels and short stories. He received a Guggenheim fellowship and…

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