Download Hard Hed: The Hoosier Chapman Papers AudioBook Free
Hard Hed is a modern day retelling of the Johnny Appleseed account. Hoosier Chapman, local historian and apple orchardist, has just been released from a Northwestern Ohio jail after serving 2 yrs for planting untamed apple trees in a city recreation area. Dropped at their state Line by the deputy sheriff, Hoosier treks western, overland and barefoot into Indiana state, recreating history and inventing myth, both public and private, on the way. Hoosier Chapman, the historian, yearns for a pre-colonial, pre-gunpowder freedom that sits just beyond the normal fields, before the wetlands were drained and the forests decrease. Chaos and violence-like-fate-hound his every step. In five "Books" varying however you like from realism to dream to historical file to speculative fiction to lyric poetry, there's a joy of build that shows through site after site. Hard Hed is part meta-story, part documentary, part violent romance, an unabashedly original work of fiction that roams in and out of the time and place and point of view. Tidler has created an Indiana as Faulkner created a Mississippi and Steinbeck a California.
