Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1990
Publication Title
Live Free or Die (Darby Chronicles)
Department
Department of English and Creative Writing
Abstract
"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.
Original Citation
Hebert, Ernest. Live Free or Die. Viking, 1990.
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Hebert, Ernest, "Live Free or Die" (1990). Dartmouth Scholarship. 3952.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/3952
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Comments
This title is part of the Darby novels series which include:
A Little More Than Kin
Whisper My Name
The Passion of Estelle Jordan
Live Free or Die
Spoonwood
Howard Elman's Farewell