Dogs of March: The Darby Chronicles #1 - Couverture souple

Hebert, Ernest

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 081957998X ISBN 13 : 9780819579980

Editeur : Wesleyan University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Life, love, death, and laughs in a small American town

His life had come to this: save a few deer from the jaws of dogs. He was a small man sent to perform a small task. Howard Elman is a man whose internal landscape is as disordered as his front yard, where native New Hampshire birches and maples mingle with a bullet-riddled washer, abandoned bathroom fixtures, and several junk cars. Howard, anti-hero of this first novel in Ernest Hebert's highly acclaimed Darby Chronicles, is a man who is tough and tender.

Howard's battle against encroaching change symbolizes the class conflict between Granite Staters and citified immigrants with "college degrees and big bank accounts." Like the winter-weakened deer threatened by the dogs of March--the normally docile house pets whose instincts arouse them to chase and kill for sport--Howard, too, is sorely beset. The seven novels of Hebert's Darby Chronicles cover 35 years in the life of a small New England town as seen through the eyes of three families--the Elmans, the Salmons, and the Jordans--each representing a distinct social class. It all starts with The Dogs of March, cited for excellence in 1980 by the Hemingway Foundation (now the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction).

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

ERNEST HEBERT, retired professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College, resides near Keene, New Hampshire, with his wife Medora and two cats that meditate on Hebert's Franco-American roots and rural New England sensibility. For more about author Ernest Hebert and the Darby Chronicles: https: //sites.google.com/view/ernesthebertdarby/

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wesleyan University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081957998X
• ISBN 13: 9780819579980
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible