Set during the 1960s in a small town, The Hill swirls high school sports, young lust, and a forbidden student-teacher affair into a confrontation that divides a community.The Hill was David Poyer's first novel, written as an experiment at the very beginning of his career. It prefigured characters, settings, and the themes of ethical choice and personal quandaries he would develop though the many books that followed: the later Hemlock County novels, set in the same remote area of the Alleghenies, the widely popular Dan Lenson novels, the Tiller Galloway diving adventures, and the Civil War at Sea trilogy, along with scores of short stories and novellas.Reedited for a modern audience, THE HILL serves as a retrospective on the genesis of a writer . . . along with a timeless look into the soul of a sensitive, disabled young man struggling toward adulthood and self-knowledge.BIONearly fifty of Poyer's books are in print with major publishers. They include novels, plays, creative nonfiction, oral history, travel and biographical nonfiction, and he's collaborated on memoirs. His work has been translated into Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Hungarian, Spanish, and Serbo-Croatian. He taught creative writing at the MA/MFA level for many years. Writers he's mentored have been taken on by major agencies, published by major houses, appeared on New York Times Top Ten bestseller lists, won the International Latino Book award and other prizes, and become college teachers. He serves on the board of the Northern Appalachian Review. His latest novel is The Academy, published by St. Martin's/Macmillan.
