| High among the crags of Crooked Mountain innorthem Vermont, a sacred indian size overlooks :hevillage of Dalton Pond. Although the mountain has beenprotected for generations within the boundaries of Snootand Frouncy Audette s battered farm, everything changeswhen their Son, Junior, comes back from Vietnam per-manently re, aimed, embittered, and alienated from hisparents and his beautiful, half-Abenaki wife, Cfaire.Secretly Junior sells the farm to a local developer. The battle for the land and its unique heritage beginswhen Walker Owen is summoned northward by his oldfriend, the outlaw farmer/giant/logger and all-aroundrascal Snoot. Walker is Claire s former lover (and muchon her mind, lately, despite his ten-year absence). Now arestless "flatlander" lawyer, Walker is eager to pitch inand win back whatever he can--despite ]unior. But hislegal skills are put aside when Claire s mysterious Abe-naki father, Horton Eagle-in-the-Wind, sets in motion anunconditional and final standard of magical justice. Don Metz s new novel is stunning proof that hisbrilliant first novel, Catamount Bridge, was no accident.Peopled with unforgettable New England characters andbristling with a northwoods language of its own, King ofthe Mountain is a dramatic tale of love and redemption,of "Native" vs. " Flatlander" that examines how peoplebehave when their land is threatened, when uninvitedchange occurs. From the rapacious developers disposa-ble mindset, to Snoot s stubborn Yankee practicality, toWalker s struggle to rediscover himself in the only placehe s ever wanted to call home, to the Abenakis principleof gentle custodianship--territorial rights and passionsflare, and the resulting fireworks will delight readersfrom Maine to California. |
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