The best Adirondack stories of Philander Deming
By: Philander Deming ; with a foreword by Frank Bergmann.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: New York classics
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Mountain life -- Fiction.; Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Description: In simple, darkly faceted stories, Philander Deming writes as a person whose childhood knowledge of the Adirondacks has been honed to a fine sense for its potential human tragedy.

In this, the first collection of his best work, a haunting vision of the Adirondacks comes through that is hard to forget. Deming's themes revolve around deception and self-deception, loneliness, and good intentions gone awry. Most of his stories occur just before or after the Civil War. In almost every story, however, Deming shows his characters looking back towards the mountains, from the Mohawk or St. Lawrence Valley or from lonely settlements on the edge of the forest, or across Lake Champlain.
Table of contents: title: Lost; title: Willie; title: Ike's wife; title: John's trial; title: An Adirondack neighborhood; title: An Adirondack home; title: The court in Schoharie; title: Tompkins; title: Mr Toby's wedding journey; title: In slavery days.