Ernest Hebert
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of New England
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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Description
"Set in New England and Canada during the French and Indian Wars, The Old American is driven by its complex, vividly imagined title character, Caucus-Meteor. By turns shrewd and embittered, ambitious and despairing, inspired and tormented, he is the self-styled "king" of the remnants of the first native tribes that encountered the English. Displaced and ravaged by disease, these refugees have been forced to bargain for land in Canada on which to live.
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Author
Publisher
David R. Godine
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
After a mistake he makes in his youth greatly hurts his first love, his boss' half-Cajun daughter, Jack Landry is influenced by his Catholic upbringing when he embarks on a lifelong penance of not following his dreams to atone for the sin.
Author
Publisher
University Press of New England
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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 constable is an eighty-something widower who wants to do "a great thing" before he motors off into the sunset. Maybe Howard achieves this goal, but he manages it in strange, wonderful, and dangerous ways. On...
