Captive's Tale

[Doug Millison]

NEBA Picks: New Englanders Discover Old American

The New England Booksellers Association has chosen The Old American by
Ernest Hebert (Hardscrabble Books/University Press of New England) as its
latest Discovery.

"In 1746," NEBA wrote, "Nathan Blake, the first frame house builder in
Keene, N.H., was abducted by Algonkians and held in Canada as a slave.
Inspired by this dramatic slice of history, novelist Ernest Hebert has
written a masterful new novel recreating those years of captivity."

Henry Berliner of the Foundry Bookstore, New Haven, Conn., commented: "In
The Old American, Ernest Hebert reworks a traditional American literary
genre--the captivity narrative--placing at its center the captor rather
than the captive. The captor and protagonist, an old New England Indian
named Caucus Meteor struggling to settle his legacy to his clan so that he
can crawl off and die at peace with himself, is a complete original
deserving of a place of honor in the pantheon of great American literary
characters. This book is wonderfully imagined and written."

--from PW Daily

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