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Philip Baruth is a short story writer and novelist living in Burlington, Vermont. He is the author of The Millennium Shows (Albion, 1994) and was awarded Black Warrior Review's Literary Award for Fiction 1993-1994. He teaches at the University of Vermont, as well as the New England Young Writer's Conference in Middlebury, Vermont.*
The Dream of the
White Village
In The Dream of the White Village,
Philip Baruth gives us a caustic novel about a small and very
human city, its ugly secrets on a scale that matches its
intrinsic and unmistakable charms. Baruth renders the tensions
found in the backrooms and streets of Burlington, Vermont,
carefully, meticulously, the way one lays tinder, kindling and
logs for a fire. Designed as a "novel in stories," The
Dream of the White Village begins wiith accounts of a rash
of suspicious church fires, and these fires prove only the first
in a series of unaccountable wrongs - including those disguised
as righteous acts of social outrage. These varied stories all
trace back finally to the ambitious political maneuverings of a
local policeman's son, Maurice Masseau, and the haunting
emotional life of the Masseau family.
Baruth's characters are at once novel and familiar - the lesbian
daughter of an Asian engineer, the lovelorn carpenter, the
fastidious town cop, the barroom kingmaker, the Abenaki dreamer,
the wife hesitating on the verge of adultery. Set against the
beauty of Lake Champlain and the ambiance og Burlington, readers
familiar with Vermont will feel both at home and disturbed by the
reality of what takes place in these stories, which together
create a well-crafted novel. Those unfamiliar with Burlington
will know, through these deliberater and contemporary portrayals,
that this is the real story of any town in any state. "A
finch-sized town with a condor's heart," Baruth's Burlington
becomes a living emblem for a radically changing New England, a
radically changing America.*
Book published by R.N.M., Inc. Champlain Mill, Winooski, Vermont. $24.00
*from the jacket cover
Bernd Heinrich is the author of numerous books, including A Year in the Maine Woods, Ravens in Winter, One Man's Owl, and Bumblebee Economics, which was twice nominated for the Naional Book Award in science. He is a professor of biology at the University of Vermont. Heinrich divides his time between Richmond, Vermont, and his cabin in the forests of western Maine.* His newest book, The Trees in My Forest, has received the New England Book Award.
The Trees in My Forest
Each of us has a forest. For the fortunate few,
this forest is real and can be visited. Most of us return to our
trees only in memory or imagination. Trees aretouchstones,
connecting us to the earth and to life, giving us a larger sense
of self.
In a unique blend of science, personal story, and philosophy,
award-winning naturalist Bernd Heinrich looks at his very real
forest in Maine and teaches us lessons about life and its bounty.
The soaring majesty of a virgin forest and the intertwined
relationships of plants, animals, and man are the subject of this
lyrical elegy. Heinrich has spent a lfetime observing the natural
world, and now he shares his vast knowledge and reflections on
the trees of the northeast woods and the rhythms of their
seasons.
From the DNA contained in an apple seed to the grat choiring
branches far beyond a young boy's reach, Heinrich explores a
natural world in scientific and personal terms. Heinrich is a
scientist, but his words speak with the power and subtle grace of
a poet. He uses his gift and his intimate knowledge of his three
hundred Maine forest to expose the forest's rhythms, and in doing
so, he illustrares the tenuous but vital link among man, trees,
birds, insects, and all the creatures of the forest. Thanks to
Bernd Heinrich, readers will finally see the forest and
the trees.*
Book published by Cliff Street Books, an imprint of Harper Collins. $24.00
*from the jacket cover
Wolfgang Mieder is a well-known paremiographer and chairperson of
the Department of German and Russian at the University of
Vermont. He has written numerous books about proverbs including: Weather
Wisdom, Proverbial Harry S. Truman, Proverbial Winston S.
Churchill, Proverbs in World Literature, A Dictionary of
Wellerisms, The Wisdom of Many, Wise Words;Essays on the Proverb,
As Strong As A Moose;New England Expressions, Love;Proverbs of
the Heart, Yankee Wisdom;New England Proverbs, Talk Less and Say
More;Vermont Proverbs, Salty Wisdom;Proverbs of the Sea, Not By
Bread Alone;Proverbs of the Bible, and "A House
Divided";From Biblical Proverb to Lincoln and Beyond. Also
included are Das Sprichwort im Werke, European University
Papers, Proverbs in Literature, and Das Sprichwort in
der Deutshen. These titles are available at the University
Store.
A Dictionary of American Proverbs
A Dictionary of American Proverbs is the most extensive collection of American proverbs ever published. It includes thousands of proverbs that have never before been recorded, as well as many thousands of traditional proverbs that have found their way into American speech from classical, biblical, British, continental European, and American literature. Based on fieldwork conducted over thirty years by the American Dialect Society, the Dictionary is the first major proverb collection in the English language based on oral rather than written sources, as weel as the first to show the geographocal distribution of proverbs and their variants in North America. A true browser's delight, A Dictionary of American Proverbs will be a great resource for the general reader, and will appeal to students and scholars of literature, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and cultural history.*
Book published by Oxford University Press. $60.00
*from the jacket cover
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