Home from the Hill, William Humphrey
Home from the Hill, William Humphrey
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Home from the Hill

Author: William Humphrey

Narrator: Brian Troxell

Unabridged: 11 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 08/06/2019

Synopsis

National Book Award Finalist: The mesmerizing saga of a Texas family torn apart by passion and pride. Twelve years after Hannah Hunnicutt was committed to a Dallas asylum, her body is brought home to northeast Texas to be buried alongside those of her husband and son. Etched on all three gravestones is the same date of death: May 28, 1939.Home from the Hill is the story of that tragic day and the dramatic events leading up to it. The biggest landowner in the county, Captain Wade Hunnicutt was a charismatic war hero whose legendary hunting skills extended to the wives of his friends and neighbors. Humiliated by her husband's philandering, Hannah grew to despise Captain Wade but was too proud to ask for a divorce; instead, she devoted herself to her only child. Torn between his mother's adoration and an overwhelming need to win his father's approval, Theron tried to become his own man. And he might have succeeded if he hadn't fallen in love with the beautiful and innocent Libby Halstead.William Humphrey's dazzling debut novel, the inspiration for a major motion picture starring Robert Mitchum, is a masterpiece of twentieth-century American literature, as intense and thrilling as the Hunnicutts themselves.

About William Humphrey

William Humphrey (1924–1997) was born in Clarksville, Texas. Neither of his parents went to school beyond the fifth grade, and during the height of the Great Depression his father hunted in the snake-infested swamplands of the Sulphur River to help feed the family. Humphrey left Clarksville at age thirteen and did not return for thirty-two years. By then he was the internationally acclaimed author of two extraordinary novels set in his hometown: Home from the Hill, a National Book Award finalist that became an MGM film starring Robert Mitchum, and its follow-up, The Ordways, which the New York Times called “exhilaratingly successful.” Eleven highly praised works of fiction and nonfiction followed, including Farther Off from Heaven, a memoir about Humphrey’s East Texas boyhood and his father’s tragic death in an automobile accident; The Spawning Run and My Moby Dick, two delightful accounts of the joys and travails of fly fishing; and No Resting Place, a novel about the forced removal of the Cherokee nation along the Trail of Tears.A longtime professor of English and writing at Bard College and other schools, Humphrey was the recipient of awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bryan--The Bee’s Knees on December 01, 2017

Humphrey's tale of small-town life in Texas circa 1938 is pretty engaging, though I don't know that anyone reads this kind of writing much anymore. Most of the character's concerns that contribute to their ultimate tragedy might as well be those of people from another country for all the relevance t......more

Goodreads review by Donna on July 26, 2015

Home from the Hill, a National Book Award finalist about to be re-released, is the kind of story that lingers and affects the reader’s mood long after it is over. Upon completing the DRC, I felt a sense of loss that only comes with really splendid literature. So thank you Open Road Integrated Media,......more

Goodreads review by David on February 23, 2015

William Humphrey (1924-1997) was a brilliant novelist, memoirist, and short story writer. Although he enjoyed wide critical acclaim and a fair amount of professional success, his work today is largely forgotten and most of it has been allowed to go out of print. Happily, Open Road Media has reintrod......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on March 22, 2022

One of my favorite movies is Home From the Hill with Robert Mitchum and Eleanor Parker, but this is one of those rare times where the movie (at least for me) was MUCH better than the book. I have never read any other books by this author so I’m not sure if it was the time in which it was originally......more

Goodreads review by Mandy on September 04, 2016

Thanks to Open Road Integrated Media and NetGalley I’ve now discovered William Humphrey, who has sadly faded from view, a great shame if this fine novel is anything to go by. It’s his first and possibly most famous novel and it’s very good indeed, a real gem. It’s the story of the Hunnicutt family a......more

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