Nathaniel Purple - Softcover

F.D. Reeve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982664451 ISBN 13: 9780982664452

Publisher: Raphel Marketing, 2012

Synopsis

A feud, a fire, an affair. Cows in the pasture, men at the lunch counter, violets in an old cream bottle. This is Vermont life passionate, pastoral, pungent in F.D. Reeve s stunning new novella, Nathaniel Purple. The story is more than the sum of its parts. It is author F.D. Reeve s love poem to the state of Vermont, which forms a rich, vivid canvas for his intimate portrayal of village life. But human nature is a bit out of joint. Years of living on the bony land has led the village people to jealousies and forbidden couplings. Reeve draws us into his world through the sharp eyes of Nathaniel Purple, who, as the town's librarian, is the link to the world of books and rational thinking. He is also an everyman, a native Vermonter, able to embrace the town s practical justice. And he has a few secrets of his own. Nathaniel Purple celebrates the strength and timelessness of the natural world above the daily struggle and quotidian quarrels of everyday existence. People live out their destinies while the seasons turn.

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About the Author

Author F.D. Reeve first visited Vermont when John Atherton and Norman Rockwell were painting. Forty years ago, he bought his first house in Vermont, and now lives in an old farmhouse in Wilmington, Vermont. His writing has earned an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Golden Rose from the New England Poetry Club, and a D. Lit from New England College. Nathaniel Purple, his thirty-first book, will be available as prepublication copies at the Burlington (Vermont) Book Festival September 24 and 25, 2011. For more information please contact Janis Raye at Voyage/Brigantine Media.

Edition details

• Publisher: Raphel Marketing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0982664451
• ISBN 13: 9780982664452
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128