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Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan (1999, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHolt & Company, Henry
ISBN-100805061479
ISBN-139780805061475
eBay Product ID (ePID)750060
Product Key Features
Book TitlePrayer for the Dying
Number of Pages195 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
TopicLiterary, Historical
FeaturesRevised
GenreFiction
AuthorStewart O'nan
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight10.3 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN98-039613
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisA Prayer for the Dying is Stewart O'Nan's most astounding achievement yet, a sunlit Gothic painted in shimmering prose that darkens the further you go into it, until, as in the best Poe and Flannery O'Connor, there is no turning back.Set in a leafy Wisconsin town just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying opens harmlessly on a languid summer day; only slowly do events reveal themselves as sinister, blooming gently into a shared nightmare, as one neighbor after another succumbs to a creeping, always fatal disease. Our sole witness to this epidemic is Jacob Hansen, Friendship's sheriff, undertaker, and pastor. As the disease engulfs the town, Jacob must find a humane way to govern, as well as take care of his wife and baby daughter, though there seems no way to save those he loves short of calling a full quarantine and boarding up the sick in their houses. And what of the tramps slipping nightly through the tinder-dry woods, the spiritualists from the city camped on the edge of town with their charismatic leader Chase? Who-will bury the dead properly, if not Jacob?Dark, poetic, and chilling, A Prayer for the Dying asks if it's possible to be a good man in a time of madness. It confirms what some readers have known all along: Stewart O'Nan is not merely one of the best young novelists in America, but one of the finest novelists of our time.
LC Classification NumberPS3565.N316P73 1999
