Spoonwood - Couverture rigide

Hebert, Ernest

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1584654902 ISBN 13 : 9781584654902

Editeur : Dartmouth College Press, 2005

Synopsis

Ernest Hebert's series of novels set in Darby. New Hampshire, has been hailed by the Boston Globe as "one of the most interesting accomplishments of contemporary American fiction...[a series] into which the texture of class is as skillfully woven as it is in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County." After almost fifteen years, Hebert has returned to this rich literary landscape for a new novel of the changing economic and social character of New England. Hebert's previous Darby novel. "Live Free or Die", recounted the ill-fated love between Freddie Elman, son of the town trash collector, and Lilith Salmon, child of Upper Darby gentility. At its conclusion, Lilith died giving birth to their son. As Spoonwood opens, Freddie, consumed by grief and anger and struggling with alcoholism, is not prepared to be a father to Birth. But as both his family and Lilith's begin to maneuver for custody of the child, Freddie embarks on a course of action that satisfies none of them. Once again, Hebert masterfully conveys the natural and social landscape of contemporary rural New England. Grounded in complex, fully realized characters. "Spoonwood" offers Hebert's most optimistic vision yet of acceptance and accommodation across class lines.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

ERNEST HEBERT's most recent novel was the critically acclaimed The Old American, halled by Kirkus Reviews as "a brilliant work" and by Alan Cheuse on NPR as a "deeply appealing novel." His earlier Darby novels The Dogs of March, Live Free or Die, and The Kinship (a one-volume edition of A Little More Than Kin and The Passion of Estelle Jordan) are available in paperback from Hardscrabble Books. He is Professor of English at Dartmouth College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dartmouth College Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1584654902
• ISBN 13: 9781584654902
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
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• Personne responsable: non disponible