| Clear Pond: The Reconstruction of a Life Contributor(s): Mitchell, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 081560257X ISBN-13: 9780815602576 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 1991 Annotation: Roger Mitchell writes with a poet's eye for exact detail in his absorbing new book about his search for Israel Johnson--a ghostly presence who comes to haunt the reader as much as he did the author. This book might easily be thought of as a detective story in which the detective discovers himself at the center of a seeming crime. It's a lovely book, richly layered and beautifully written. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General - Reference | Genealogy & Heraldry |
| Dewey: 974.5 |
| LCCN: 90-26079 |
| Series: New York State |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6.26" W x 9.26" (1.26 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New York |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The winner of the John Ben Snow Prize delves into the life of a 19th-century Adirondack millwright and arrives at a greater awareness of his own reality. Despite having developed patents for a type of sawmill, Israel Johnson was no one in particular, an everyman who died penniless. |