Fleeing the wreckage of a murky diplomatic job in a Chaotic Latin country, Mark Noon finds himself down-and-out and holed up in a hotel in Mexico. As a last resort, he claims an odd bequest from a long-deceased family friend named Hugo Usher, and comes north to move into a dilapidated hill farmhouse in rural Vermont.
There, Noon begins to rebuild the house and the fragments of his life. He comes...
Castle Freeman, Jr. is the author of the novel Judgment Hill, The Bride of Ambrose and Other Stories, and a collection of essays, Spring Snow. His writing has been published in The Old Farmer's Almanac, Yankee, The Atlantic Monthly, and various literary quarterlies. He lives with his wife in Newfane, Vermont.
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. Noon inherits $100,000 and an old house, but the will stipulates that he must live on the land, no small challenge given the batty eccentrics who populate Bible Hill...
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