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Set against the setting of a devastating forest open fire that Henry David Thoreau inadvertently set in 1844, John Pipkin's book brilliantly illuminates your brain of the young philosopher at a formative moment in time in his life and in the life span of the young nation.
The Thoreau of Woodsburner is a lost soul, resigned to a profession building pencils for his father's manufacturer while fantasizing of better things. On the day of the open fire, his route crosses those of three completely different people, each of whom also harbors a key wish. Oddmund Hus, a shy Norwegian farmhand, pines for the wife of his brutal company. Eliot Calvert, a prosperous bookseller, is also a hilariously inept aspiring playwright. Caleb Dowdy preaches open fire and brimstone to his fans through an opium haze. Each of the lives, like Thoreau's, will be modified forever by the open fire.
