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Sherbrookes: Possession / Sherbrookes / Stillness
Sherbrookes: Possession / Sherbrookes / Stillness
Sherbrookes: Possession / Sherbrookes / Stillness
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Now finally collected into a single volume, the Sherbrookes trilogy—Possession, Sherbrookes, and Stillness—is Nicholas Delbanco's most celebrated achievement. Centering upon one New England clan and their estate in southwestern Vermont—a full thousand acres, including the bleak and chilly Big House, from which the volatile Sherbrookes have such trouble escaping—these books form a virtuoso portrait of the love, pride, resentment, and even madness we inherit from our families. Written in his characteristically opulent, bravura prose, Delbanco is here revealed as a Henry James for our time: a passionate cataloger of human strength and frailty. Edited and revised by the author some thirty years after its first publication, the trilogy—“made new” as the single-volume Sherbrookes—can now be rediscovered by a new generation of readers.
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Release dateAug 25, 2011
ISBN9781564786654
Sherbrookes: Possession / Sherbrookes / Stillness
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Nicholas Delbanco

Nicholas Delbanco is the author of more than two dozen works of fiction and nonfiction-including, most recently, Lastingness: The Art of Old Age. He is the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Hopwood awards program and was for many years the director of the MFA program in creative writing.

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