{"product_id":"the-angels-came-to-sodom-paul-russell-9781917352161","title":"The Angels Came to Sodom in the Evening","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Fearless. In prose that is lush and unflinching, it explores the entanglement of desire and shame, power and cruelty, biblical landscapes and the American South.\" -- Chloe Benjamin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA masterful return from one of the\u003cbr\u003egreats of contemporary American fiction.\u003c\/b\u003eIn 1970s Memphis, two boys lock in battle.\u003cbr\u003eThey're best friends, but when your body floods with longing, sometimes all you\u003cbr\u003ecan do is fight. Then one summer, at a Christian camp, Rory Singleton meets a\u003cbr\u003efellow teenager who shows him the wonders of dragonflies and sex-- episodes of\u003cbr\u003estolen pleasure that awaken a hunger he'll spend a lifetime trying to bury.As an adult, Rory is the pastor of a\u003cbr\u003ethriving megachurch, his life built on secrets, careful silences, and furtive\u003cbr\u003eencounters. But when he's sent to Africa to promote a homophobic crusade, the\u003cbr\u003econtradictions become unbearable. A reckoning begins--one that will take him\u003cbr\u003efrom the pulpit to underground queer spaces, from respectability to radical\u003cbr\u003ehonesty, from denial to a raw, dangerous freedom, and finally to a\u003cbr\u003econfrontation with everything he's built and everyone he's betrayed.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe\u003cbr\u003eComing Storm\u003c\/i\u003e comes a searing novel in the tradition of James Baldwin\u003cbr\u003eand Flannery O'Connor--a devastating portrait of American evangelicalism's war\u003cbr\u003eon desire, and one man's fight to reclaim the pleasure and truth he's been\u003cbr\u003edenied.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Russell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1917352166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781917352161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbican Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Paul Russell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801184022783,"sku":"9781917352161","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-angels-came-to-sodom-paul-russell-9781917352161","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}