Sherbrookes: Possession / Sherbrookes / Stillness (American Literature Series) - Softcover

A consistent, highly acclaimed writer.

An excellent writer is among us, and if we neglect him, we shall have to apologize to posterity.

Nicholas Delbanco writes like an inspired maniac, with a brilliant outpouring of image and idea. --Patricia Meyer Spacks

[Nicholas Delbanco] wrestles with the abundance of his gifts as a novelist the way other men wrestle with their deficiencies. --John Updike

Delbanco has a fine intellect and a sharp pen, and he wields both with precision.

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.