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The book is about the time Henry David Thoreau burned down 300 acres of forest with a careless cooking fire, and how his environmentalist philosophy was derived out of the ashes.
"Set against the background of a forest fire started by Henry David Thoreau, Woodsburner chronicles the lives of Oddmund Hus, a lovesick Norwegian immigrant farm hand, Eliot Calvert, a struggling bookseller and aspiring playwright, and Caleb Dowdy, a fire and brimstone preacher, whose stories intersect over the course of a single day: April 30, 1844. As the characters confront their lives of quiet desperation, they also offer a glimpse into the historical and cultural forces that shaped the young American nation in the years leading up to the Civil War."
--from "redroom.com"
Nobody famous was born or died on April 30th, 1844. I already checked.
Pipkin lives in Austin and used to be the Executive Director of the Writer's League of Texas. If I see him on the street around here, I'll shake his hand for you.
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