KEENE - Ernest Hebert signing his new novel, "Never Back Down"

06/02/2012 11:00 am

Stop by on Sat., June 2 at 11:00 a.m. and say hello to Ernest Hebert!

In Never Back Down, Hebert's most autobiographical novel to date, Jack Landry is introduced as a promising high school baseball player from the mill town of Keene, New Hampshire. A young boy when the novel opens in July 1953, Jack and his best friend, Elphege, devise a motto to live by: Never back down, never instigate. It's a rule of stubborn passivity Jack will follow to the end of his days.

Hebert is a master storyteller who, in addition to creating memorable characters and gripping narratives, does not shy away from the big questions. In Never Back Down he raises more than a few. The portrait Hebert gives us of Jack Landry's life of menial labor, joie de vivre, and a love that just won't die not only raises these questions but answers them as well.

Ernest Hebert lives in New Hampshire and teaches writing at Dartmouth College.

Never Back Down (Hardcover)

$24.95
ISBN-13: 9781567924329
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: David R. Godine Publisher, 5/2012

The Dogs of March (Paperback)

$16.95
ISBN-13: 9780874517194
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: University Press of New England, 2/1995

The Old American (Paperback)

$16.95
ISBN-13: 9781584652137
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Dartmouth Publishing Group, 11/2001

Live Free or Die (Paperback)

$17.95
ISBN-13: 9780874516999
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: University Press of New England, 2/1995

Spoonwood (Hardcover)


ISBN-13: 9781584654902
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Dartmouth College, 8/2005

$29.95
ISBN-13: 9781584655251
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: University Press of New England, 8/2007

Location: 
Street:
222 West St.
City:
Keene
,
Province:
New Hampshire
Postal Code:
03431
Country:
United States

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