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A Prayer for the Dying (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312428914)
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xNew York Times Book Review Notable 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 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.Author: Stewart O'Nan
ISBN-10: 031242891X
ISBN-13: 9780312428914
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 05/26/2009
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d
By Stewart O'Nan
xStewart O'Nan's novels include Last Night at the Lobster, The Night Country, and Prayer for the Dying. His novel Snow Angels was the basis of the 2007 film of the same name. He is also the author of the nonfiction books The Circus Fire and, with Stephen King, the bestselling Faithful. Granta named him one of the Twenty Best Young American Novelists. He lives in Pittsburgh.
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