Live Free or Die
The Darby Chronicles #5
Published on 3. August 2021
424 pages
978-0-8195-8060-3 (ISBN)
Description
The struggle between the rural working class and the upper crust intensifies in this turning-point novel 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 in Hebert's tragic tale that echoes Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 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.
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12/2021
Wesleyan University Press
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ERNEST HEBERT, retired professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College, resides near Keene, New Hampshire, with his wife Medora and two cats that meditate on Hebert's Franco-American roots and rural New England sensibility. For more about author Ernest Hebert and the Darby Chronicles: https://sites.google.com/view/ernesthebertdarby/
Content
- Cover
- LIVE FREE OR DIE
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- PART I
- 1 The Bridge
- 2 The Elmans
- 3 Cooty
- 4 Rash Acts
- 5 Money
- 6 Darby
- 7 The ChaMadonnan
- 8 Grave Labor
- 9 The Trust
- 10 Coming of Age
- 11 Memorial
- PART II
- 1 Listen, Freddy
- 2 Driving Around
- 3 Smoke
- 4 Dining on Perch
- 5 Trying On for Size
- 6 The Native
- 7 Dining on Sole
- 8 Howard's Dump
- 9 A Course for Salvation
- 10 Shrouds and Pyres
- 11 Staying and Leaving
- PART III
- 1 Different
- 2 Christmas Prayers
- 3 Dismantling the Manger
- 4 On Ice
- 5 The Thaw
- 6 Death and Taxes
- 7 Washing
- 8 The Emergency
- 9 In the Pit
- 10 Live Free or Die
