Where the Rivers Flow North

Name: Where the Rivers Flow North
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Howard Frank Mosher
ISBN: 9781470834838

Author: Howard Frank Mosher

Narrator: Pat Bottino

Unabridged: 6 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 08/07/2012

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

These seven striking tales of life in rural New England are both lyrical and captivating. Kingdom County, Vermont, is an isolated vestige of an earlier New England. In its rugged hills, a proud and resourceful people struggle to live on the land that is both their adversary and their lifes blood. Within the borders of his fictional kingdom, the Providence Journal has noted, Mosher has created mountains and rivers, timber forests and crossroads villages, history and language. And he has peopled the landscape with some of the truest, most memorable characters in contemporary literature. The stories in this collection are: Alabama Jones, Burl, First Snow, The Peacock, High Water, Kingdom Country Come, and Where the Rivers Flow North (A Novella).

About Howard Frank Mosher

Howard Frank Mosher is the author of ten books, including Waiting for Teddy Williams, The True Account, and A Stranger in the Kingdom, which, along with Disappearances, was co-recipient of the New England Book Award for fiction.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Taylor

Nominated this one for book club in honor of Howard Frank Mosher's passing away earlier this year. I'd encountered him twice for work and found him kind and charming in person, but had yet to read him. Where the Rivers Flow North encompasses the titular novella and a handful of stories, all of which......more

Goodreads review by Jen

Remember the Saturday Night Live skit "Who's More Grizzled?" with Robert Duvall playing a former sharecropper from Mississippi and Tate Mitchum who worked on an off shore oil rig until he broke his back? Well those guys were soft c*cks compared to Mosher's main character Noel Lord, old time Vermont......more

Goodreads review by Kolumbina

Hard to read! Of course (probably as other people who read it) I started to read it because of it's fantastic and powerful title. A collection of short stories written by my favourite writer, H. W. Mosher. Have to admit didn't like them at all. The book and all these stories are so depressing, I assu......more