A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States
“One of the richest books ever to come my way.”—Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News
“This is a wonderful book. . . . An extraordinary achievement.”—Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes
Set amid the glimmering lakes and disappearing forests of the early United States, The Forest imagines how a wide variety of Americans experienced their lives. Part truth, part fiction, and featuring both real and invented characters, the book follows painters, poets, enslaved people, farmers, and artisans living and working in a world still made largely of wood. Some of the historical characters—such as Thomas Cole, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanny Kemble, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nat Turner—are well known, while others are not. But all are creators of private and grand designs.
The Forest unfolds in brief stories. Each episode reveals an intricate lost world. Characters cross paths or go their own ways, each striving for something different but together forming a pattern of life. For Alexander Nemerov, the forest is a description of American society, the dense and discontinuous woods of nation, the foliating thoughts of different people, each with their separate shade and sun. Through vivid descriptions of the people, sights, smells, and sounds of Jacksonian America, illustrated with paintings, prints, and photographs, The Forest brings American history to life on a human scale.
Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
"This vibrant collection liberally envisions America’s early cultural life through its forests, from Nathaniel Hawthorne, for whom trees were ‘arbors of thought,’ to Nat Turner, who planned his rebellion while secluded in the woods." - New York Times
"[A] beguiling study of American intellectual and cultural life two centuries ago at the places where forests and civilization met." - Kirkus Reviews starred review
"The prose is lyric verging on the poetical, nonfiction verging on the speculative, but each of these often fantastical-seeming stories ends up getting buttressed by a veritable grove of references and cross-references in a Notes section at the back of the book, such that by the end who knows, or would necessarily want to know." - Lawrence Weschler
"Beautifully designed and a pleasure to hold, The Forest is one of 2023’s most intellectually unshackled books—and one of its best." - Point Reyes Books
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“One of the richest books ever to come my way.”—Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News
“This is a wonderful book. . . . An extraordinary achievement.”—Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes
Set amid the glimmering lakes and disappearing forests of the early United States, The Forest imagines how a wide variety of Americans experienced their lives. Part truth, part fiction, and featuring both real and invented characters, the book follows painters, poets, enslaved people, farmers, and artisans living and working in a world still made largely of wood. Some of the historical characters—such as Thomas Cole, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanny Kemble, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nat Turner—are well known, while others are not. But all are creators of private and grand designs.
The Forest unfolds in brief stories. Each episode reveals an intricate lost world. Characters cross paths or go their own ways, each striving for something different but together forming a pattern of life. For Alexander Nemerov, the forest is a description of American society, the dense and discontinuous woods of nation, the foliating thoughts of different people, each with their separate shade and sun. Through vivid descriptions of the people, sights, smells, and sounds of Jacksonian America, illustrated with paintings, prints, and photographs, The Forest brings American history to life on a human scale.
Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
"This vibrant collection liberally envisions America’s early cultural life through its forests, from Nathaniel Hawthorne, for whom trees were ‘arbors of thought,’ to Nat Turner, who planned his rebellion while secluded in the woods." - New York Times
"[A] beguiling study of American intellectual and cultural life two centuries ago at the places where forests and civilization met." - Kirkus Reviews starred review
"The prose is lyric verging on the poetical, nonfiction verging on the speculative, but each of these often fantastical-seeming stories ends up getting buttressed by a veritable grove of references and cross-references in a Notes section at the back of the book, such that by the end who knows, or would necessarily want to know." - Lawrence Weschler
"Beautifully designed and a pleasure to hold, The Forest is one of 2023’s most intellectually unshackled books—and one of its best." - Point Reyes Books
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