Fiction

ISBN: 9781611686234
Published by : University Press of New England
Initially appearing in Hebert's first Darby Chronicles novel, The Dogs of March, Ollie Jordan and his clan live in shacks behind a huge billboard advertising a Vermont business. Although he's a brooding character with an inquiring, philosophical t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781611685411
Published by : University Press of New England
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 con... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781611687064
Published by : University Press of New England
"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... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781611686296
Published by : Dartmouth College Press
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 wo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781611687071
Published by : University Press of New England
"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 ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781611686272
Published by : University Press of New England
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 wit... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781611686258
Published by : University Press of New England
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 to a vote... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788857519838
Published by : Mimesis International
Volume: 1
Why have authors from the safe, social welfare state Sweden captivated the minds of the crime fiction readers across the globe? Kerstin Bergman suggests that killer marketing and a widespread curiosità about the “exot... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781890650728
Published by : Omnidawn Publishing
Winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Contest, selected by Jeff VanderMeer, this richly evocative tale shows readers what it means to learn to care for another living creature. The story, which is set in a world that mirrors our... .... Learn More