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The Suburbs of Heaven

The Suburbs of Heaven


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What would drive easy-going, likable Jim Hutchins to pick up a twelve-gauge and head for his sworn enemy? The IRS threatening to garnish his mechanic's wages? His kids providing the police department full-time employment? His grief-sodden wife making money by dancing naked for his brother-in-law? Better ask what's kept him from picking it up before--His wits? His keen insights into human pretension? His wry sense of humor? His rough-hewn knowledge of the human heart? Tension rules until the end as "The Suburbs of Heaven balances heartbreak and black comedic hilarity." (Newsday.) "Biting, ribald ... engaging characters... What gives The Suburbs of Heaven much of its charm are the voices of its narrators, the five Hutchinses. Each of them is endowed with a similar blunt and idiosyncratic eloquence."--The New York Times Book Review. "At last New Hampshire has her Faulkner. This powerful and disturbing novel chronicles the hardscrabble lives of the Hutchins clan and their colorful, compelling neighbors. Here's a tale of betrayal and loss, ignorance and poverty. Merle Drown knows that what's important is the exploration of the human heart in conflict with itself."--John Dufresne, author of Love Warps the Mind a Little

About the Author :
A native of Northern New England, Merle Drown took his bachelor's degree at Macalester College. He received his MFA from Goddard College, where his mentors were Richard Rhodes, Richard Ford, and John Irving--back when we were all young. (He hit the trifecta.) He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the NH Arts Council. The father of three sons, he mostly lives in Concord, N.H. and Toronto. A hunter-gatherer, he writes, teaches, and freelance edits. He is currently working on a new novel.

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"Drown knows the language of despair and exploits it with blistering acuity, ingenious turns of phrase and colloquial metaphors. [He] evokes with withering, sympathetic insight the sociological quirks of this New Hampshire clan of sad sacks." Newsday "[The] characters are captivating in all their human frailty." Library Journal "Antic, tender, and bittersweet...Narrated in the convincing voices of the five Hutchinses, the story veers from ribald to tragic...Throughout, Drown's language shines, and even his most misguided characters are fully alive, resonant, and original, speaking with quiet, piercing wisdom." Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A tense blend of hilarity and savagery...Lots of edgy, quick humor." Kirkus Review "Brutal and hilarious... a mini-masterpieces of Southern Gothic, gone north." Gallery "Drown clearly has affection for his cast, and he isn't slumming: he knows what a motel housekeeper's job entails, how a trailer's plumbing system works." The Boston Book Review "Drown's earthy, graceful hilarious prose, explores love and marriage, friendship, the power of money and poverty, middle-aged regret, and other baggage of life. As funny as it is poignant...as fine a piece of literary as it is a provocative story." Portsmouth (NH) Herald Sunday "Drown has created a dead-on community of characters where The Beans of Egypt, Maine meets Tobacco Road in a trailer park in Penacook Country, N.H. Hold on to your pickup; it's quite a ride.' Roanoke (VA) Times & World-News "Biting, ribald...engaging characters...What gives The Suburbs of Heaven much of its charm are the voices of its narrators, the five Hutchinses. Each of them is endowed with a similar blunt and idiosyncratic eloquence. Energetic plotting...Ironically, it is the comedy that gives [the characters] stature and even dignity, as they pick themselves up after each new mortification." The New York Times


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780996707534
  • Publisher: Merle Drown
  • Publisher Imprint: Merle Drown
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 390
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 133 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0996707530
  • Publisher Date: 23 Sep 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 494 gr


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