The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s

From the Publisher: Set amid glimmering lakes and disappearing forests of early United States, TheForest imagines how a wide variety Americans experienced their lives. Part truth, part fiction, featuringboth real invented characters, book follows painters, poets, enslaved people, farmers, artisansliving working in world still made largely wood. Some historical characters—such as ThomasCole, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanny Kemble, Edgar Allan Poe, Nat Turner—are wellknown,while others are not. But all creators private grand designs. The Forest unfolds brief stories. Each episode reveals an intricate lost world. Characters cross paths orgo own ways, each striving for something different but together forming pattern life. For AlexanderNemerov, forest is description American society, dense discontinuous woods nation, thefoliating thoughts with separate shade sun. Through vivid descriptions ofthe sights, smells, sounds Jacksonian America, illustrated paintings, prints, photographs,The brings history to life on human scale.