Disappearances

By Howard Frank Mosher

Book Overview

Winner of the New England Book Award, Howard Frank Mosher's endearing novel is both a heroic adventure and a thrilling coming-of-age story. It is the memorable tale of a young man named Wild Bill... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670273589
• ISBN13: 9780670273584
• Release Date: November 1977
• Publisher: The Viking Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A beautiful and uplifting book

I first read this book in college in 1987, and go back to it every few years when I need to be reminded how wonderful life is. It is beautifully written, incredibly funny and very, very moving. I don't know why this book isn't more widely read, it certainly deserves to be.

A wonderful tale of bygone northern New England

This is the first book I read by this author and have since read all his works. He has a wonderful understanding of the REAL Vermont natives and his local color truly captures a lost era of New England history. This is a "must read" for anyone who enjoys novels of New England. It has almost folk tale overtones as does his novella "Where The Rivers Flow North", another fine piece.

Simply one of the best stories every written

I cannot reccomend this book enough. Dissapearances is the only father son book better than A River Runs Through it. Paul Bunyonesque exploration of the North East Kingdom of Vermont.

natural history, tall tales, adventure: Pure enjoyment

I read this novel every few years. It is a metaphor for life. I read it in college in the area where the story takes place. What did I like best? Whiskey-running, demon chasing adventure. Absurd tall tales blending with natural history and American history. Intrigue. Rogue trickter mythology in rural Vermont in the 1920's.