The Power Line Nathan E. Parks before Hans Christian Andersen

before Hans Christian Andersen

Pittsburgh would become home

A series of of characteristically provocative essays

along with a final previously unpublished interview by Thomas that enables readers to understand the coherence of his entire work

more glorious and] more passionate

The Power Line Nathan E. Parks before Hans Christian AndersenIn the nineteen eighties, an amateur historian of the Adirondacks recorded the fading memories of an aging woodsman and bootlegger, searching for details about the old time fiddle player and rustic builder Fran Germaine. The woodsman's wild tales faded into dust more than once until the discovery of a diary kept by Rosalyn Orloff, the socialist writer and political theorist of the twenties and thirties, and reputed lover of the psychoanalyst Carl