{"product_id":"9780874517194","title":"The Dogs of March","description":"\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoward Elman is a man whose internal landscape is as disordered as his front yard, where native New Hampshire birches and maples 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 Chronicles, is a man who is tough and tender.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoward’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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seven novels of Hebert’s Darby Chronicles cover 35 years in the life of a small New England town as seen through the eyes of three families—the Elmans, the Salmons, and the Jordans—each representing a distinct social class. It all starts with The Dogs of March, cited for excellence in 1980 by the Hemingway Foundation (now the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of New England","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008983875824,"sku":"9780874517194","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780874517194_p0.jpg?v=1763847699","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780874517194","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}