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title	:	Live Free or Die Hardscrabble Books
author	:	Hebert, Ernest.
publisher	:	University Press of New England
isbn10 | asin	:	0874516994
print isbn13	:	9780874516999
ebook isbn13	:	9780585275628
language	:	English
subject	City and town life--New Hampshire--Fiction.
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	PS3558.E277L55 1995eb
ddc	:	813/.54
subject	:	City and town life--New Hampshire--Fiction.

Page i "To feel encompassed by a novelto sense that you've actually set foot in its terrainis very rare indeed. I not only envisioned Mr. Hebert's town, I also walked its streets, fished its ponds, tracked bear in its outlying wilderness, felt its seasons, dug and planted in its earth. For Live Free or Die is imbued with a palpable spirit of place ... One is reminded of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County or of Robertson Davies's Deptford." New York Times Book Review "Hebert's strength is his ability to blend the personal with the political, the particular with the general. The most mundane decisions made by his characters, their most particular characteristics, can have repercussions throughout the town." Milwaukee Journal "More than just another Romeo and Juliet tragedy ... Hebert continues to explore the conflicts between social classes, natives and newcomers, developers and conservationists, in a small New England community." Library Journal "Hebert has a deft hand in weaving characters and plot elements from his previous books into the mix, without ever confusing a reader who hasn't read them. He's also a brilliant storyteller, lyrical, hilarious and shrewd. In Live Free or Die, as in all the Darby novels, he moves freely between several points of view. He speaks for oligarchs and dumpster rats with equal empathy; here he even tours the forest from behind the eyes and busy nose of a black bear sow ... As a superb close to a masterful series, Live Free or Die delivers what may be the last word on the tiresome native-versus-flatlander debate." Vermont Times

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Page v OTHER BOOKS BY ERNEST HEBERT Mad Boys The Kinship The Passion of Estelle Jordan Whisper My Name A Little More Than Kin The Dogs of March

Page vi HARDSCRABBLE BOOKS Fiction of New England Chris Bohjalian, Water Witches Ernest Hebert, The Dogs of March Ernest Hebert, Live Free or Die W. D. Wetherell, The Wisest Man in America Edith Wharton (Barbara A. White, ed.), Wharton's New England: Seven Stories and Ethan Frome Thomas Williams, The Hair of Harold Roux

Page vii Live Free or Die Ernest Hebert

Page viii UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND publishes books under its own imprint and is the publisher for Brandeis University Press, Brown University Press, Dartmouth College, Middlebury College Press, University of New Hampshire, University of Rhode Island, Tufts University, University of Vermont, Wesleyan University Press, and Salzburg Seminar. Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 1990 by Ernest Hebert All rights reserved University Press of New England paperback edition published in 1995. Live Free or Die was first published in 1990 by Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hebert, Ernest. Live free or die / Ernest Hebert. p. cm.(Hardscrabble books) ISBN 0-87451-699-4 1. City and town lifeNew HampshireFiction. I. Title. II. Series. PS3558.E277L55 1995 813' .54dc20 94-44581

Page ix AUTHOR'S NOTE, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND DEDICATION This is the fifth and final of a series of novels about the fictional town of Darby, New Hampshire. Some place names and other elements of the real world appear in the novels. The geography of Darby is a composite of Westmoreland and Sullivan, New Hampshire. But the characters and stories are fiction. I made it all up, and I'm proud to say so. I'm tempted to ramble on about what I set out to do, what I discovered and what I think this series means. But once books are in print, they belong to the readers, not the authors, so, as Howard Elman would say, I'll pipe down. I'm not sure why, but through the writing of these novels I've been stingy with acknowledgments. It's time to give thanks. The most important person in my life and the greatest inspiration to my work has been my wife, Medora. Others who have contributed in some way to the writing and/or publication of the Darby novels include: Delia Daniels, Dayton Duncan, Kathryn Harrison, Audrey Lyle, Mavis MacIntosh, Ted Parent, Nancy Pindell, Terry Pindell, Rita Scott, William Sullivan, Charles Verrill, Lael Wertenbaker, Alan Williams, my parents, my teachers, and many writers whose work I have drawn from and been sustained by, in particular: E. M. Forster and his novel Howard's End,

Page x George Orwell and his novel Coming Up for Air,

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