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 woven as it is in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. After...
Maybe the way to save yourself is to save someone else
The stakes are high when a company proposes to build a regional shopping mall in Darby
Few novels so thoroughly explore how poverty shapes a person's mind, relationships, and life than Ernest Hebert's The Dogs of March. Exquisitely poetic language is veined throughout the book, and what's more, it repeatedly delivers deep insights into human nature. On self-righteous arrogance: she...
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.
I like historical fiction because I can always learn something. And while this novel was based on a true event (capture by Indians of a frontier colonist during the French & Indian War) in a time period I find fascinating (think "Last of the Mohicans"), I was disappointed. The story moved glacia...