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Never Back Down
Author: Hebert, ErnestDate: 2012Publication: David R. GodineLanguage : enFind in a library: 689858563Novel set in Keene, New Hampshire between the 1950s and early 2000s. Young baseball prospect Jack Landry comes of age with the Catholic sensibility and working-class ethos of his upbringing. Landry confronts stereotype, forbidden love's trials, and the perils of his personal success under the looming ethereal presences of an ancient event and his tragically killed Memere. A man's life between New England and New Orleans, configured through the guiding motto of his youth: "Never back down, never instigate."Tags Acadians, Cajuns, Death and Disaster, Family, Fiction and Literature, Florida, Gender and Sexuality, Irish Americans, Keene NH, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Fiction, Mexico ME, Mills and Mill Work, Mississippi, Native Americans, New Hampshire, New Orleans LA, Religion, Rumford ME, Sports and Leisure, White River Junction VT, Youth -
Never Back Down
Author: Hebert, ErnestDate: 2012Publication: David R. GodineLanguage : enFind in a library: 689858563Novel set in Keene, New Hampshire between the 1950s and early 2000s. Young baseball prospect Jack Landry comes of age with the Catholic sensibility and working-class ethos of his upbringing. Landry confronts stereotype, forbidden love's trials, and the perils of his personal success under the looming ethereal presences of an ancient event and his tragically killed Memere. A man's life between New England and New Orleans, configured through the guiding motto of his youth: "Never back down, never instigate."Tags Acadians, Cajuns, Death and Disaster, Family, Fiction and Literature, Florida, Gender and Sexuality, Irish Americans, Keene NH, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Fiction, Mexico ME, Mills and Mill Work, Mississippi, Native Americans, New Hampshire, New Orleans LA, Religion, Rumford ME, Sports and Leisure, White River Junction (Vt.), Youth