WOODSBURNER by John Pipkin — John Pipkin’s WOODSBURNER chronicles the lives of a lovesick Norwegian immigrant farm hand, a struggling bookseller, a fire and brimstone preacher, and a pencil maker named Henry David Thoreau as their stories intersect over a fire Thoreau accidentally set which burned 800 acres near Walden Pond, to Janet Silver at Houghton Mifflin, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
