Secrets of Walden Rising - 1st Edition/1st Printing by Baillie, Allan - 1997

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670873519 . An eye-catching first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with lightly bumped lower right corner in Fine dust-jacket; From acclaimed author Baillie, comes a mesmerizing novel of life, love, and loss set in the beautiful, but fiercely contested, forests of upstate New York.In the summer of 1984, at the age of seventeen, Henry DeWitt moves to Walden Rising, a remote logging town in upstate New York. It is a place where the natural world is a constant force, and the residents are fiercely independent and fiercely protective of their secrets.Henry quickly bonds with his new friends, but he is also drawn to the enigmatic older girl, Lizzie. She shares a deep connection with the forest, and Henry soon realizes that she may know more about the town's secrets than she's letting on.As the summer progresses, Henry's world is rocked by the unexpected death of one of his friends and by the revelation that Lizzie is pregnant. Henry must decide whether to risk everything to find out the truth about Walden Rising -; 8vo; FSA .