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Home from the hill

Title: Home from the hill / by William Humphrey.
Author: Humphrey, William.
Publication: Baton Rouge, LA : Louisiana State University Press, 1996, ©1957.

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Description

312 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

Fifteen years after the death of her husband and son - years spent in a Dallas asylum - Hannah Hunnicutt is laid to rest between them in their small northeast Texas hometown. All three tombstones, however, bear the same date: May 18, 1939.
From that event, Home from the Hill unfolds a powerful tale, told in flashback, that explains the tragic date: the volatile relationship between genteel, brooding Hannah and her charismatic, wayward husband, Wade; the arduous effects on their son, Theron, divided between emulating the father he admires and returning his mother's love; Theron's affection for pretty Libby Halstead and his induction into the adult rites of hunting and sex; and the murderous consequences of revenge.
Originally published in 1958, William Humphrey's first novel perfectly evokes the culture of the 1930s South as it vividly renders individuals yoked together as a family. It has been translated into a dozen languages and was made into a movie starring Robert Mitchum as Wade Hunnicutt.

Series Statement

Voices of the South

Uniform Title

Voices of the South.

ISBN

0807120677 (pbk.)

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries