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"For more than a decade Ernest Hebert has been shaping with relatively scant fanfare one of the most interesting accomplishments of contemporary American fiction – a five-volume cycle about Darby, a southern New Hampshire hill town, into which the texture of class is as skillfully woven as it is in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County." —Boston Globe
The struggle between the indigenous rural working class and the upper crust intensifies in this final novel of Hebert's Darby series.
"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 final novel of Hebert's Darby series 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.
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ERNEST HEBERT lives in New Hampshire and teaches writing at Dartmouth College. The first volume in his acclaimed "Darby" cycle, The Dogs of March, has also been reissued as a Hardscrabble book. UPNE has published his latest novel, the critically-acclaimed The Old American, as well as his novel Mad Boys and has also reissued under the title The Kinship two other books from the Darby series: A Little More Than Kin and The Passion of Estelle Jordan
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To learn more about Ernest Hebert and his writing visit his website here.
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