Peter Loon : a novel / Van Reid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reid, Van.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land settlement.

History.

Maine--History--1775-1865--Fiction.

Maine.

Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Land settlement--Fiction.

Young men--Fiction.

Young men.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Historical fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

298 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin, 2003.

Summary:

Deep in the north woods of Maine, the Revolutionary War is still fresh in settlers' minds as a young man named Peter Loon sets off at his mother's urging to find a mysterious person. Peter, who has never been away from his home in Sheepscott Great Pond, quickly falls into a series of startling entanglements. Providentially he befriends a nomadic parson with a seafaring past whose humble intelligence and steady head prove useful, especially when the two find themselves in the middle of a bitter land battle. Crisscrossing their way between the two sides, Peter Loon and Parson Leach tread the razor-thin line between law and justice and encounter an astounding variety of characters and situations along the way. With the inimitable storytelling, exquisitely etched characters, and gentle humor that make Reid such a master, Peter Loon is a breathtaking tale of high adventure and great humanity.

Contents:

Chapter 1. How Ezekiel Peter Black Came to Sheepscott Great Pond and How His Young Daughter Was Courted 1

Chapter 2. Of Rosemund Loon's Strangeness, and Silas Loon's Death, and How Their Son Peter Was Sent in Search of an Uncle "By Marriage." 8

Chapter 3. Of Peter Loon's First Night in the Forest 17

Chapter 4. How Peter Loon Conjured Himself from a Felled Buck, and How He Met Two Woodsmen and a Parson 26

Chapter 5. How Peter Fell in with Parson Leach 34

Chapter 6. Of the March to Plymouth Gore, and of the Place They Went Instead 41

Chapter 7. How Peter Loon and Parson Leach Were Received at the Ale Wife's Tavern, Who They Met, and What They Learned There 50

Chapter 8. Concerning a Conversation on the Beach, and the Consequences of Mr. Tillage's Peep of Heaven 61

Chapter 9. Concerning Antinomianism and Other Matters 68

Chapter 10. Of the Road to New Milford, Unexpected Meetings, and How a Peaceful Man Might Be Driven to Anger 79

Chapter 11. Concerning a Change in Plans, a Parting of the Ways, as Well as an Introduction to the Busy Abode of Captain Clayden as Governed by Mrs. Magnamous 95

Chapter 12. Concerning an Interview with Captain Clayden 107

Chapter 13. How Peter Spent His First Night on Clayden Point, and How He Was Perceived by Young Women There 118

Chapter 14. Of What It Meant to Pique-Nique and the Inevitability of Certain Failures 130

Chapter 15. Concerning New Visitors to Captain Clayden and Their Opinions 150

Chapter 16. Of the Road to New Milford, and What They Discovered at Great Meadow Copse 166

Chapter 17. Concerning the Encounter at Benjamin Brook 185

Chapter 18. How Opinion Differed over the Course of a Few Hours and a Few Miles, and What Was Said at the Sign of the Star and Sturgeon 189

Chapter 19. Concerning Matters with Elspeth Gray and Gray Farm 207

Chapter 20. How the Parson Was Accused by

and Peter Attached to

Nathan Barrow 219

Chapter 21. Concerning the Disposition of Two Hundred 234

Chapter 22. Concerning the March to Wiscasset 237

Chapter 23. How Peter Came to His Third Tavern, and How He Put the Night's Adventures into Motion 246

Chapter 24. How Peter Loon Came to the Jail at Wiscasset and What Happened There 255

Chapter 25. How Peter Loon Returned to New Milford and How He Left There Again 273

Chapter 26. How Peter Journeyed Home and What He Found There 279

Chapter 27. Concerning Peter Loon's Decisions and also What Was Decided for Him 288.

ISBN:

0142003115

9780142003114

OCLC:

52825938