{"product_id":"points-north-stories-9781250161932","title":"Points North: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe final book by one of Americas most treasured writers.  Upon his passing in January 2017  Howard Frank Mosher was recognized as one of Americas most acclaimed writers. His fiction set in the world of Vermonts fabled Northeast Kingdom chronicles the intertwining family histories of the natives  wanderers  outcasts  and others who settled in this ethereal place. In its obituary  The New York Times wrote  Mr. Moshers fictional Kingdom County  Vt.  became his New England version of Faulkners Yoknapatawpha County.  In Points North  completed just weeks before his death  Mosher presents a brilliant  lovingly-evoked collection of stories that center around the Kinneson family  ranging over decades of their history in the Kingdom. From a loquacious itinerant preacher who beguiles the reticent farmers and shopkeepers of a small New England town  to a proposed dam that threatens the river that Kinneson men have fished for generations  the scandalous secret of a romance and its violent consequences  and a young mans seemingly fruitless search for lovePoints North is a full-hearted  gently-comic  and beautifully-written last gift to the readers who treasure Howard Frank Mosher.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67973032378421,"sku":"ByrdShop_1250161932","price":29.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781250161932.jpg?v=1794631786","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/points-north-stories-9781250161932","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}