Stranger in the Kingdom by Howard Frank Mosher

Stranger in the Kingdom by Howard Frank Mosher

This novel of murder and its aftermath in a small Vermont town in the 1950s is reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird...Absorbing (New York Times).

In Kingdom County, Vermont, the town's new Presbyterian minister is a black man, an unsettling fact for some of the locals. When a French-Canadian woman takes refuge in his parsonage -- and is subsequently murdered -- suspicion immediately falls on the clergyman. While his thirteen-year-old son struggles in the shadow of the town's accusations, and his older son, a lawyer, fights to defend him, a father finds himself on trial more for who he is than for what he might have done.

Set in northern Vermont in 1952, Mosher's tale of racism and murder is powerful, viscerally affecting and totally contemporary in its exposure of deep-seated prejudice and intolerance... A] big, old-fashioned novel. -- Publishers Weekly

A real mystery in the best and truest sense. -- Lee Smith, New York Times Book Review

A Winner of the New England Book Award

HOWARD FRANK MOSHER is the author of ten novels and two memoirs. He was honored with the New England Independent Booksellers Association's President's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts and is the recipient of the Literature Award bestowed by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His novel A Stranger in the Kingdom won the New England Book Award for fiction and was later made into a movie, as were his novels Disappearances and Where the Rivers Flow North.

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ISBN 13	9780385244008
ISBN 10	0385244002
Titel	Stranger in the Kingdom
Autor	Howard Frank Mosher
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Doubleday Books
Erscheinungsjahr	1989-09-23
Seitenanzahl	421
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.