Ernest Hebert

• Jun-1979
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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 ...

• Mar-1984
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Evicted from the New Hampshire shack he proudly called home, Ollie Jordan--ignorant, ingenious, angry, bedevilled, and doomed--pursues his independence, though bound to an idiot son he both dotes on and despises...

• Nov-1984
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The institution of town meeting, the beauty of the landscape, and the enduring qualities of the architecture all give the New England town the power to shape the identity of its inhabitants—in a good way. This premise is put on trial—and ...

• Jan-1987
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Sometimes the characters in Ernest Hebert’s Darby Chronicles hew close to real life. When the author was a college student pulling shifts part time at a hospital laundry, he worked alongside a woman in her fifties -- unadorned, sweet-natured, and w...

• Dec-1990
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"You stay in your hometown, you end up more of a stranger than if you'd started new someplace else."

The struggle between the indigenous rural working class and the upper crust intensifies in this turning-point novel of the Darby Chronicles as Fr...

• Jul-1993
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Web Clements, thirteen, escapes from a swamp in rural New Hampshire with no memory of his past, and finds himself in a confusing world of virtual reality, wars produced for television, computerized restaurants, and lifelike holograms...

• Sep-1993
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Two novels from the acclaimed Darby series: A Little More Than Kin and The Passion of Estelle Jordan. Includes a substanial essay by the author which explains how and why he came to write about the shack people....

• Sep-2000
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In 1746, Nathan Blake, the first frame house builder in Keene, New Hampshire, was abducted by Algonkians and held in Canada as a slave. Inspired by this dramatic slice of history, novelist Ernest Hebert has written a masterful new novel recreating th...

• Jun-2012
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In this, Ernest Hebert's most autobiographical novel to date, Jack Landry, haunted by dreams of a tragedy that occurred centuries before he was born, is introduced as a promising high school baseball player from the mill town of Keene, New Hampshire....

• Sep-2014
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Part Falstaff, part King Lear, but all American, Howard Elman was a fifty-something workingman when he burst onto the literary scene in The Dogs of March, the first novel of the Darby Chronicles. Now in this, its seventh installment, the Darby consta...