num_pages: 255
description: "His life had come to save a few deer from the jaws of dogs. He was a small man sent to perform a small task."Howard Elman is a man whose internal landscape is as disordered as his front yard, where native New Hampshire birches 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 series, is a mixture too.Howard'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.
language: English
title: The Dogs of March
titlecomplete: The Dogs of March
genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Literature, Amazon
ratings_count: 440
places: New Hampshire
series: Darby Chronicles
publisher: Viking