Into the Wilderness
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Book Details
Author(s)Deborah Lee Luskin
PublisherWhite River Press
ISBN / ASIN1935052209
ISBN-139781935052203
Sales Rank1,993,318
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
- Winner of IndependentPublisher's Gold Medal for Regional Fiction, May 2011!
        It's no surprise that Luskin has borrowed from Austen's Pride and Prejudice. She's been a life-long student of Jane Austen and holds a PhD from Columbia. She's been writing about Vermont life, past and present, since relocating there from New York City in 1984.
Into The Wilderness is not strictly a retelling of Austen's tale. It's also a tale of the outsider arriving in the heart of a new community - and how all parties negotiate their differences (or fail to). And it's a tale of rural Vermont at mid-century, a time when the major technological advance was the Interstate, a road-building project that changed rural America as much as the information highway is changing the world today. The story is accompanied by chamber music from the famous Marlboro Music Festival.
        Readers routinely say, "I didn't want it to end - but I couldn't put it down." Critics have hailed Into The Wilderness as "a fiercely intelligent love story" and "a perfectly gratifying read." It has been recognized by the Vermont Library Association for "Sense of Place" and has received the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Fiction from the National Association of Book Exhibitors. Gold Medal winner of2011 Independent Publisher Regional Book Awards for the Northeastern United States.
