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The Book. When Young Ames reaches Manhattan one day in 1833, he is a smart, poker-faced, likeable runaway from an upstate farm, who quickly gets himself a job with one of the best wholesale houses in the city-Chevalier & Deming Post. Young Ames has freckles and unruly hair through...
Heretofore Edmonds' novels have rambled through the past of his native upstate New York, chiefly along the towpaths of the Erie Canal. He put the canal and its folkways into Rome Haul, Erie Water, Chad Hanna. He deserted the ditch only long enough to write his most successful novel...
The Author. Says Walter Dumaux Edmonds of his novels from Rome Haul to Young Ames: "I'm a pretty good technician, sort of a fancy reporter who reports on the past instead of the present." Purpose of his fancy reporting: "To tell, through the daily lives of everyday people...
In summer Edmonds writes on the family farm at Boonville, N.Y. There he has built himself a cabin on a hilltop, can write in peace "because people won't take the trouble to walk up the hill." In the fall the whole Edmonds family moves to Cambridge, Mass., where...
A few years ago Edmonds had to give up smoking because of incipient cancer. Now he drinks water copiously to alibi those constant work-stoppages that most writers find so necessary when facing a piece of blank paper. At such times Edmonds' three-year-old daughter often stands outside...