John (Marsden) Ehle (Jr.)

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Mountain People

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"The Winter People" is drenched in local wit and custom…. It is also filled with vivid evocations of the mountains and surrounding terrain, and alive with rounded, nuanced characters who appear to exist beyond the novel's covers.

John Ehle … has staked a serious, quiet claim to this profoundly American territory.

Ivan Gold, "Mountain People," in The New York Times Book Review (© 1982 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), May 9, 1982, p. 13.

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