Hilarious, New England, Satire: Les Donovan Releases “The Hermit and the Woodchuck”

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Tuftonborough, New Hampshire, August 15, 2008 (PressReleasePoint) – New author, Les Donovan, announces the availability of his first book titled “The Hermit and the Woodchuck”. It is published by Publish America and is now available and on sale at all major bookstores.

“The Hermit and the Woodchuck” is a satire of early Derry, New Hampshire culture during the 18-century in part one and leaping forward to the 20th century in part two.

Inspired by both his early and later life experiences living in New Hampshire, Mr. Donovan, wrote this book to highlight the history and changing times for the not-so average man living in northern New England.

In this story Mr. Donovan describes how early inhabitants of New Hampshire experienced life and struggled with cultural changes that took place in those difficult early days of regional development. In some cases, citizens would drop out of society and apart from organized civilization. This satirical story is about such a person, a young man whose wife wandered off with a lumberjack. His personal devastation was so great that he chose to give up on society and move to the forest to live as a hermit. To ease his loneliness he befriends animals of the forest taking in many as pets. However, his favorite pet was the woodchuck who he taught to read and write English. The hermit and the woodchuck lived a hermit's lifestyle in a cabin deep in the forest south of the town of Derry, New Hampshire along the banks of West Running Brook. As the town's culture changed, the hermit's lifestyle becomes threatened, as well as the woodchucks.

Les Donovan was born in Derry along with 10 brothers and sister. He now lives with his wife Cynthia in the lakes region of New Hampshire. Although retired after more than four decades in aviation he now teaches at Southern New Hampshire University as an adjunct instructor. He is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire and Florida's Institute of Technology.

His second book titled "Getting to My Birthday" will be published in the near future. It is a humorist story of a developing fetus in its mother's womb that confronts the difficult task of how a fetus self constructs while witnessing the outside world from its "fish tank" environment.

For more information see www.lesdonovan.blogspot.com