A Prayer for the Dying A Novel |
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| Author:
| O'Nan, Stewart |
| ISBN: | 978-0-312-42891-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 2009 |
| Publisher: | Picador
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $17.00 |
Book Description:
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New York Times Book ReviewNotable Book of the Year "A new masterpiece of American literature." --Dennis Lehane,Entertainment Weekly "A Prayer for the Dying reads like the amazing, unrelenting love child of Shirley Jackson and Cormac McCarthy. It's twisted proof that God will do worse to test a faithful man than the devil would ever do to punish a sinner." --Chuck Palahniuk Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just...
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New York Times Book ReviewNotable Book of the Year
"A new masterpiece of American literature." --Dennis Lehane,Entertainment Weekly
"A Prayer for the Dying reads like the amazing, unrelenting love child of Shirley Jackson and Cormac McCarthy. It's twisted proof that God will do worse to test a faithful man than the devil would ever do to punish a sinner." --Chuck Palahniuk
Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War,A Prayer for the Dyingtells of a horrible epidemic that is suddenly and gruesomely killing the town's residents and setting off a terrifying paranoia. Jacob Hansen, Friendship's sheriff, undertaker, and pastor, is soon overwhelmed by the fear and anguish around him, and his sanity begins to fray. Dark, poetic, and chilling, Stewart O'Nan'sA Prayer for the Dying examines the effect of madness and violence on the morality of a once-decent man.