Henry Boulanger of Mushannon Town by Mark Seinfelt

Henry Boulanger of Mushannon Town by Mark Seinfelt

The court of Louis XVI continues to exert a powerful pull on the imagination. The dramatic events of Yorktown, the final struggle in America's bid for Independence also remains a subject of fascination. Less known is the story of the Azilum Company, how after the French Revolution, investors purchased large tracts in Pennsylvania and promoted settlements in the hopes of providing a refuge for French emigres. Versailles, Yorktown, Azilum all play a part in Mark Seinfelt's novel Henry Boulanger of Mushannon Town, which tells the story of a Revolutionary war soldier, who prior to coming to the States, was a travelling shoemaker in Germany and France. The novel resembles Thomas Mann's Felix Krull in that it features a rogue hero venturing out from his own nation into two very different worlds. The reader sees how life was lived on both sides of the Atlantic, an old world as debauched as that portrayed in Barry Lyndon, a new as fierce and untamed as in The Last of the Mohicans.

Mark Seinfelt is the author of several books. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the Pennsylvania State University, where he received the Henry Sams Memorial Award for his thesis and where he studied under critically acclaimed author and Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award winner Paul West and novelist and screenwriter Robert C.S. Downs. He also holds a Master of Fine Arts in writing from Washington University in St. Louis, where he worked with the noted fiction writer, philosopher, and essayist William H. Gass, who served as chairman of his dissertation committee. In February 2004, his study of famous author suicides Final Drafts was selected as an alternate selection of the Readers Subscription Book Club, and in 2010 his novel Henry Boulanger of Mushannon Town received a Pinnacle Book Achievement Award in the category of historical fiction by the North American Bookdealers Exchange [NABE]. The NABE Pinnacle Awards annually honor top genre books published by independent publishers in a wide variety of categories. No stranger to distinction, Henry Boulanger of Mushannon Town was also selected as a semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest in 2008. Seinfelt's fiction has been featured in numerous publications. Currently, he resides in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania.

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ISBN 13	9781419695704
ISBN 10	1419695703
Title	Henry Boulanger of Mushannon Town
Author	Mark Seinfelt
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Booksurge Publishing
Year published	2008-09-11
Number of pages	336
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