Judgment Hill (Hardscrabble Books) - Hardcover

Freeman, Castle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874518326 ISBN 13: 9780874518320

Verlag: University Press of New England, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Garrett Benteen uses his wealth and his forceful personality to become the benign dictator of his Vermont village, where his friends and neighbors chafe under the yoke of his vision of what the hamlet is and must be. UP.

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Reseña del editor

Garrett Benteen, self-created baron of a Vermont village, will not abide destruction of the land around him. The buzz of the chainsaw, the felling of trees, the raising of flimsy spec houses warrant more than mere headshaking - to Benteen they are calls to battle. Using his wealth and the sheer force of his personality, he manipulates friends and neighbors to sustain his vision of what the town has been and what he believes it must continue to be. Even at his most magnanimous, as when dispensing money for college educations, employing those in need of work, or providing wood for an elderly invalid, Benteen is intent on control, and arrogant in his conviction that he knows best. His beneficiaries seethe with resentment, and it is this interplay, the tension between this man of wealth and power and those he would control, that shapes this first novel by seasoned writer Castle Freeman, Jr.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University Press of New England
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0874518326
• ISBN 13: 9780874518320
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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