{"product_id":"9781611687088","title":"Live Free or Die","description":"“You stay in your hometown, you end up more of a stranger than if you’d started new someplace else.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe struggle between the indigenous rural working class and the upper crust intensifies in this turning-point novel of the Darby Chronicles as Freddy Elman, son of the town trash collector, and Lilith Salmon, daughter of a prestigious family, embark on their ill-fated love affair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeeing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book for anyone interested in local politics, privilege, and poverty, all embedded in a story of love and death in the woods and on the ledges of the Granite State.","brand":"University Press of New England","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134225432816,"sku":"9781611687088","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781611687088_p0.jpg?v=1763842385","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781611687088","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}