North of Nelson - Stories of Michigan's Upper Peninsula - Volume 1

Hilton Everett Moore

Synopsis

...six gripping short stories set in the wilderness of the Upper  Peninsula of Michigan will hold the reader spellbound as the  various protagonists live, and sometimes perish, in this often harsh  and rugged land. The mythical village of Nelson frames the life and  plights of the various actors as they plunge headlong physically,  psychologically, and metaphorically, into the treacherous waters  of the Sturgeon River Country, where humans live precariously on  the edge of a knife, and every mistake could be fatal.  While this work is entirely fiction--it easily spans over a century--  the tales dig at, and lay bare, a slice of Americana, a neglected  culture, which is rapidly atrophying in rural areas--not only  across the Upper Peninsula, but in much of the rural north.  In the opening story, "The Irascible Pedagogue," set in the later part  of the nineteenth century, the lonely and maddened heart of the  village pedagogue, Horace Nelson, ends regrettably as jealously  invades his troubled mind causing unpredictable mayhem and  murder. In the second and award-winning short story, The Silent  Mistress, Lizzie must endure, not only the poverty and destitution  of the Great Depression, but also the inexorable decline of her  husband's life as he wastes away from the ravages of alcoholism.  Other memorable stories in North of Nelson, Volume 1, will not  only entertain, but challenge the reader to examine the guts and  sinew of a rare and vanishing culture--the great Upper Peninsula.  North of Nelson: Volume 2 is scheduled to be published in late  2022.  Hilton Everett Moore lives in a remote cabin in the Upper Peninsula  of Michigan.

Disponible depuis: 01/10/2022.

Longueur d'impression: 144 pages.

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