Young urban professionals realize a dream of escaping to a mountaintop, building their own house, and subsisting off the land. A contemporary tale? A saga of the '60's or 70's? Hardly. This book spans the years 1899-1903. The Setting is the wild and remote Catskill Mountain Region known today as Plattekill Clove. The author is a close literary friend of Theodore Dreiser. At once a fascinating window on manners and mores in rural America a century ago, and an important work for Dreiser scholars, The House in the Woods is a charming ,beautifully written memoir of the age old quest for "the simple life." With an introduction by Alf Evers, a preface by Neda M. Westlake, and a foreword and afterword by Donald T. Oakes.
6x9, 225 pages, paper
$15.95
ISBN 1-883789-24-9