A Prayer for the Dying A Prayer for the Dying

A Prayer for the Dying

A Novel

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Description de l’éditeur

A deadly epidemic threatens the lives and sanity of a Civil War veteran and his family in this “new masterpiece of American literature” (Dennis Lehane).

Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying tells 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’s A Prayer for the Dying examines the effect of madness and violence on the morality of a once-decent man.

Praise for A Prayer for the Dying

New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year

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

“O’Nan again proves himself a writer of dazzling virtuosity and imagination. . . . A mesmerizing story and a brilliant tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

GENRE
Romans et littérature
SORTIE
2013
8 octobre
LANGUE
EN
Anglais
LONGUEUR
208
Pages
ÉDITIONS
Henry Holt and Co.
DÉTAILS DU FOURNISSEUR
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
TAILLE
1,4
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