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The Blood of Heaven
Kent Wascom
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Description for The Blood of Heaven
Paperback. Get ready for an epic debut novel of insurrection and ambition, love and revenge, set in fledgling independent America. This astonishing debut is reminiscent of the finest of early Cormac McCarthy. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 199 x 29. Weight in Grams: 308.
It is 1861, and Angel Woolsack is a Confederate about to breathe his last, as the Union forces make their inexorable approach. Rejected by his wife, his wealth no longer useful to him, he sets about recording his testament.
His story is that of a preacher's son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father and falls in with a charismatic highwayman. The novel moves from the bordellos of Natchez to the Mississippi plantations, and finally to the back rooms of New Orleans where would-be revolutionaries are plotting to break away from the young United States.
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Product Details
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781611855661
SKU
V9781611855661
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Ref
99-10
About Kent Wascom
Kent Wascom was born in New Orleans in 1986, and spent his childhood in Louisiana and Florida. He attended Louisiana State University and received his MFA from Florida State University. In 2012, he won the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for fiction for The Blood of Heaven.
Reviews for The Blood of Heaven
An exceptionally eloquent and assured debut.
The Sunday Times
Wascom is able to create an eerie bond between America's past and its present.
FT
Every page of Kent Wascom's debut, The Blood of Heaven, struck me with its beauty and ugliness... This is not, like most novels, a glimpse of a life. It is a life. ... Read more
The Sunday Times
Wascom is able to create an eerie bond between America's past and its present.
FT
Every page of Kent Wascom's debut, The Blood of Heaven, struck me with its beauty and ugliness... This is not, like most novels, a glimpse of a life. It is a life. ... Read more