Wilderness Run
by Maria Hummel
List Price: $13.95
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0312320477
Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback
A native Vermonter, Maria Hummel has won several awards for her poetry and fiction, including a Bread Loaf Fellowship, Randall Jarrell Fellowship, and Academy of American Poets Prize. She has published work in The Georgia Review, Crab Orchard Review, Manoa, and Los Angeles Magazine, among others, and a selection of her poetry is collected in City of the Moon (Harperprints, 1999). She currently works as a writer and editor at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
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A Note From The Author
"The Vermont forests are filled with old stone walls, cellar holes, and mossy wells, the remainders of people who farmed the land in the 19th century. Growing up in these woods, I was fascinated by the untold stories of such remains, and my first novel drew its inspiration from the years before and during the Civil War, when the state was covered in sheep farms, the lumber barons pitched their castles above Lake Champlain, and thousands of young men were called to fight on distant battlefields.
One day I had a vision of two children sitting on the cliffs of a frozen lake and hearing a voice below them, the voice of a runaway slave. Their decision to help him would change the rest of their lives, setting off a chain of events that would lead to one enlisting to fight and another to falling in love. So I began with ice and a winter sky and journeyed all the way to the fiery battle of the Wilderness, for which the book is named."
Excerpted from Wilderness Run © Copyright 2009 by Maria Hummel. Reprinted with permission by Griffin Trade Paperback. All rights reserved.
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