You stay in your hometown, you end up more of a stranger than if you'd started new someplace else.The struggle between the indigeus rural working class and the upper crust intensifies in this turning-point vel of the Darby Chronicles as Freddy Elman, son of the town trash collector, and Lilith Salmon, daughter of a prestigious family, embark on their ill-fated love affair. Seeing Darby through new eyes, Freddy comes to realize that the kind of people who hunkered down among these tree-infested, rock-strewn hills is dying out, replaced by people with money, education, culture, people `wise in the ways of the world.' As that world increasingly intervenes, the lovers' attempt to bridge the chasm that divides their class-alienated families inevitably collapses. This is a book for anyone interested in local politics, privilege, and poverty, all embedded in a story of love and death in the woods and on the ledges of the Granite State.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of New England
ISBN-10
1611687063
ISBN-13
9781611687064
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209056926
Product Key Features
Author
Ernest Hebert
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Hanover
Author Biography
ERNEST HEBERT resides in a pleasant town outside Keene, teaches English in the small college town of Hanover, and spends a good deal of time in the imaginary Darby, all three situated in New Hampshire. For more about author Ernest Hebert and the Darby Chronicles go to erniehebert.com.