A Prayer for the Dying
(eBook)

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    [synopsis] => 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 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.
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