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Marie Blythe (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England) Paperback – August 12, 2004

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  • Series: Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England
  • Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Vermont; 1st University of Vermont Press/UPNE Ed edition (August 12, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1584653647
  • ISBN-13: 978-1584653646
  • Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 1 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsAnother super novel of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom
By Rick Hunter on December 31, 2001
Format: Paperback
In his eponymous novel Marie Blythe, Howard Frank Mosher proves again why he is one of my favorite writers. French Canadian Marie, the book's heroine, is truly a remarkable woman. She survives the loss of her parents, life with a clan of gypsies, an unmarried pregnancy and loss of her child, and near death by exposure to change her identity. Over time, she goes on to learn to read, go to normal school, and become a teacher. Oh, yes, she is nearly murdered in the end by her crazed ex-lover. While all of this may sound somewhat melodramatic, it is not; Mosher makes it merely the stuff of a captivating, totally engaging story. Set, as all of Mosher's books are in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, Blythe vividly evokes both a time (post-Civil war to early twentieth century) and place (Vermont village of Hell's Gate). Above all, though, this is a novel of character, and Marie's combination of bullheadedness, naivete, energy and faith carries the day. Recalling the French Canadian priest who counseled her as a child, Marie in a time of crisis "remembered his advice to maintain a little faith in something, if only in fishing." Mosher, for his part, renews my faith again in great writing.
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5.0 out of 5 starsMarie Blythe, by Howard F. Mosher
By A reader in Island Pond, Vermont on December 4, 1999
Format: Paperback
I have to say, A reader from South Berwick, Maine, sums it up perfectly. But I'd like to add this to it by saying it is a yet another "can't put it down" book. Mr. Mosher has captured the area he writes most about. When you read this book, you will be taken there.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA French Canadian Girl Comes Home to Hell's Gate...
By Alec Hastings on April 19, 2014
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If you want to get the flavor of rural northern Vermont a hundred years ago, you can't do any better than Marie Blythe. Hard Scrabble was the right publisher because Mosher writes about hard scrabble people living in a hard scrabble time. It took guts and ingenuity to survive in Vermont after the Civil War, and people like Captain Benedict, Pia the Gypsy, Jigger Johnson, and Marie herself had guts and ingenuity in spades. The story is about Marie's odyssey. Like Homer's hero, Marie just wants to go home, but first she has to figure out where home is. At the beginning of the novel, Marie and her parents flee a smallpox outbreak in Quebec which has taken the lives of Marie's four siblings. Her father Claude finds work in Captain Benedict's furniture factory on the shores of Lake Memphremagog, but when her father and mother also die, Marie decamps with the gypsies that periodically appear in the town of Hell's Gate. Her adventures take her east into the logging country of the Upper Connecticut Valley and eventually to a tuberculosis sanatorium where she becomes a nurse. When finally Marie decides to return to Hell's Gate after years of exile, she does, at last, feel the joy of returning home. That joy is short-lived, however. Captain Benedict has died, and his son, Abie, is now in charge of the factory where Marie takes employment. Marie is not sure why, but this makes her uneasy. Abie has a cruel streak she knows well from when they were children. There seems to be no sign of that evil now, but Marie senses trouble, and she's got a nose for it. If you're looking for a story that will transport you to the woods and villages of the early 1900s, that will put you in the company of some especially colorful characters, and that will never bog down, pull this one off the shelf. It's a darned good read! Love Mosher's tales!
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4.0 out of 5 starsMarie Blythe
By Jo Jo from E. R. on May 26, 2012
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Marie Blythe, the title character in Howard Frank Mosher's novel is a French-Canadian woman who moves to Northern New England as a young child with her parents in the early twentieth century. The story about Marie's joys and heartaches makes for an extremely compelling novel. With Mosher's vivid prose, the reader shares both the hardships and happiness in Marie's life and comes to understand her great strength of character and spirit of survival.

Although this is a very enjoyable read, I felt that the scene toward the end of the book with Marie Blythe's ex-lover, Abie was a little over the top. I loved the last chapter of the book which gives the reader a very strong sense of renewal and survival.

My book discussion group read and discussed Howard Frank Mosher's very fine novel, A Stranger in the Kingdom in December of 2011, and we had the great pleasure and privilege of talking to Mosher in a conference phone call. He was very friendly and willing to answer all of our questions.
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5.0 out of 5 stars... Blythe and Northern Borders are tied for my two favorite Howard Mosher books (although his others are great
By Keeper's mom on July 29, 2014
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Marie Blythe and Northern Borders are tied for my two favorite Howard Mosher books (although his others are great, too). As someone who grew up in Vermont and spent much time in Quebec as well as the "northeast kingdom," I so much enjoy his vivid descriptions of times past, the colorful characters who often appear in multiple books, and the element of the "fantastic" (as a literary genre) that appears in some of his best books.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAnother "northern" tale from a fine author!
By A Customer on January 22, 1999
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This novel covers one woman's struggle to survive in the harsh environment between Quebec and Vermont at the turn of the century. You can't help but admire her strength. For anyone interested in Franco-American culture in northern New England as well as Mosher fans like me
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2.0 out of 5 starsSorry-didn't like it
By BlueDog on October 20, 2012
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I wanted to like it. I give it 2 stars instead of one because it was interesting reading about the period. However the writing was not of a high level. I checked a couple of times to see it is considered a young adult book. Some of the sections are simply boring such as the pages long section when the protagonist is stalking a deer.
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