Marie Blythe
by Howard Frank Mosher
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A new edition of a classic novel with a strong female lead. Howard Frank Mosher is 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 with a felicitous name 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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Episodic novel follows life of Canadian immigrant Marie Blythe from age 13 to mid-thirties. Parts were exciting, but much of it was pretty dull. I found it interesting, because I like historical novels that are realistic (not romanticized). This was life as it was lived on the Canadian border in the early twentieth century, focusing on a woman of unusual strength of character. The antagonist was not very sympathetic, for me; couldn't really understand what drove him to madness. I liked "Where the Rivers Flow North" better. The style here is simpler, almost YA. A good novel for a high school reader.
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Howard Frank Mosher was born in Kingston, New York on June 2, 1942. He received a bachelor's degree from Syracuse University and a master's degree from the University of Vermont. He taught high school English in a region in rural Vermont called the Northeast Kingdom. He wrote several books about the area including North Country: A Personal show more Journey, God's Kingdom, and Points North. Many of his books were adapted into films including Where the Rivers Flow, A Stranger in the Kingdom, Disappearances, and Northern Borders. He died from lung cancer on January 29, 2017 at the age of 74. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Marie Blythe
- People/Characters
- Marie Blythe
- Important places
- Kingdom County, Vermont, USA
- Dedication
- For Phillis
- First words
- In the spring of 1899 six families set out on foot through lower French Canada.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Along with something a priest had once told her, it was as useful a piece of advice as any she had ever been given.
- Blurbers
- Hoagland, Edward
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 2
