{"product_id":"make-my-bed-in-hell-john-sanford-9781735851723","title":"Make My Bed In Hell","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The prose is fresh and energetic, the story-telling superb, and the writing comes out as raw and terrifying as an exposed nerve.\" \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Platt has spent every day of his life breaking his back to scrape a living from the rocky, played-out fields of the Adirondack farm he inherited from his sadistic father. One winter morning, he follows footprints in the snow to his barn and discovers a man freezing to death in a horse stall. What unfolds between the two men, past and present, is a brisk, gritty depiction of crime and punishment. But their harrowing story is more than that, exposing the shocking hypocrisy of the people who live in the nearby, bucolic town-a legacy of hatred that reaches back to the violent founding of the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis literary masterpiece, back in print for the first time in over 60 years, includes a new Afterword by Jack Mearns, author of \u003ci\u003eJohn Sanford: An Annotated Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A first-rate story of violence and congealed hate.\" \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The story is electrifying.\" \u003ci\u003eSaturday Review of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A brief, fast book, and those pages are terse. Sanford has injected the drama of spilled blood that made America.\" \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An unusual book with some brilliant pieces of writing, exceeding Celine and Faulkner in depravity and language.\" \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Sanford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1735851728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781735851723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cutting Edge Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.42d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Sanford","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44044360450303,"sku":"9781735851723","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c9257833-55af-4d92-857a-3b6917d5d1c8.jpg?v=1684972404","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/make-my-bed-in-hell-john-sanford-9781735851723","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}