The Dogs of March - Couverture souple

Livre 1 sur 7: Darby Chronicles

Hebert, Ernest

 
9781611687071: The Dogs of March
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ISBN 10 : 1611687071 ISBN 13 : 9781611687071
Editeur : University Press of New England, 2014

Synopsis

"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 indigenous Granite Staters scratching out a living 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).

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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 indigenous Granite Staters scratching out a living and citified immigrants with ""college degrees and big bank accounts."" Like the winter-weakened deer threatened by the dogs of Marchthe normally docile house pets whose instincts arouse them to chase and kill for sportHoward, 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 familiesthe Elmans, the Salmons, and the Jordanseach 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).

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Éditeur
University Press of New England
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1611687071
ISBN 13 
9781611687071
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0874517192 ISBN 13 :  9780874517194
Editeur : University Press of New England, 1995
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