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Ernest Hebert
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The Dogs of March |
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English |
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Paperback |
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272 |
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1980-03-27 |
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0140055606 |
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Penguin Books |
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0.2 pounds |
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4.2 x 7.1 x 0.6 inches |
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First Edition |
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1 Laura Wilson (USA: VT) |
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"His life had come to this: save a few deer from the jaws of dogs. He was a small man sent to perform a small task."
Howard Elman is a man whose internal landscape is as disordered as his front yard, where native New Hampshire birches mingle with a bullet-riddled washer, abandoned bathroom fixtures, and several junk cars. Howard, anti-hero of this first novel in Ernest Hebert's highly acclaimed Darby series, is a mixture too.
Howard's battle against encroaching change symbolizes the class conflict between indigenous Granite Staters scratching out a living and citified immigrants with "college degrees and big bank accounts." Like the winter-weakened deer threatened by the dogs of March -- the normally docile house pets whose instincts arouse them to chase and kill for sport -- Howard, too, is sorely beset.
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