Author: Williams, Thomas, an amazing introduction by John Irving,
Title: Leah, New Hampshire: the collected stories of Thomas Williams.
Description: NY, William Morrow and Company, (1992). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG Hardback in G DJ (some wear to edges). Born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1926, at age ten he went to New York city and later to New Hampshire where he died of cancer in. 1991. Very much a New Hampshire man, Williams except for army service in Japan and university studies in Chicago, Iowa City, and Paris. Leah, New Hampshire is a fictional town and its enduring landscape are the makeup of his life, he lived in Vermont for 20 years. He was a sportsman, a hunter and a fisherman, conversationsit and an environmentalist. He built an impressive housoe of wood nnd stone aiwht his own hands and the help of his wife. He was a college professor at the University of New Hampshire. and was instructiveabout what sort of moss or fern you were standing on but alsso understood how mechanical things work. He knew tools and he knew guns. The definities lore of all he had been able to learn, in the most careful and correct detail. But what John Irving in his introduction says he most admired about Williams is how much he knew about about human nature, how much he fathomed psychologically about people and knew especially well is what is darkest and most hidden in us, also our smaller weaknesses, our unspoken lies to ourself, the hypocrises we caarefully hide from others. In this he is a wonderfully old-fashsioned writer he reveals moral truths about ourselves and makes discoveries of moral truths about oureslves of an often painful nature. Real characters populate his stories. He doesn't need to show off with words, because he's showing us bigger things. We realize there is a rightness in the passage from life to death.

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