Judgment Hill: A NovelGarrett Benteen, self-created baron of a Vermont village, will not abide destruction of the land around him. The buzz of the chainsaw, the felling of trees, the raising of flimsy spec houses warrant more than mere headshaking - to Benteen they are calls to battle. Using his wealth and the sheer force of his personality, he manipulates friends and neighbors to sustain his vision of what the town has been and what he believes it must continue to be. Even at his most magnanimous, as when dispensing money for college educations, employing those in need of work, or providing wood for an elderly invalid, Benteen is intent on control, and arrogant in his conviction that he knows best. His beneficiaries seethe with resentment, and it is this interplay, the tension between this man of wealth and power and those he would control, that shapes this first novel by seasoned writer Castle Freeman, Jr. |
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... waited you could . There were two little ones , three bigger . One of the big- ger ones might be a spike . Marvin tried to see . The deer picked their way idly among the trees . They never started or seemed to know he was watching them ...
... waited you could . There were two little ones , three bigger . One of the big- ger ones might be a spike . Marvin tried to see . The deer picked their way idly among the trees . They never started or seemed to know he was watching them ...
Page 55
... waited by the sink . Vergil had forgotten them for the moment . He was looking out the window to the back lot and the woods enclosing it . The house was in the middle of the woods now . Vergil wasn't a bad looking old party : had plenty ...
... waited by the sink . Vergil had forgotten them for the moment . He was looking out the window to the back lot and the woods enclosing it . The house was in the middle of the woods now . Vergil wasn't a bad looking old party : had plenty ...
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... waited for Althea to go in before her , but Althea stood back . " Go ahead in , " said Althea . " You go on ahead . He won't hurt you . Goodness sake . " Vergil was at his window . He looked up when Benteen came into the room but when ...
... waited for Althea to go in before her , but Althea stood back . " Go ahead in , " said Althea . " You go on ahead . He won't hurt you . Goodness sake . " Vergil was at his window . He looked up when Benteen came into the room but when ...
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