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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Grove Pr
Publication date May 28, 2013
Pages 457
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780802121189
ISBN-10 0802121187
Dimensions 1.75 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight 1.65 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $25.00
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
One of the most powerful and impressive debuts Grove/Atlantic has ever published, The Blood of Heaven is an epic novel about the American frontier in the early days of the nineteenth century. Its twenty-six-year-old author, Kent Wascom, was awarded the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for fiction, and this first novel shows the kind of talent rarely seen in any novelist, no matter their age.

The Blood of Heaven is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher’s son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, then settles with his adopted brothers on the rough frontier of West Florida, where American settlers are carving their place out of lands held by the Spaniards and the French. The novel moves from the bordellos of Natchez, where Angel meets his love Red Kate to the Mississippi River plantations, where the brutal system of slave labor is creating fantastic wealth along with terrible suffering, and finally to the back rooms of New Orleans among schemers, dreamers, and would-be revolutionaries plotting to break away from the young United States and create a new country under the leadership of the renegade founding father Aaron Burr.

The Blood of Heaven is a remarkable portrait of a young man seizing his place in a violent new world, a moving love story, and a vivid tale of ambition and political machinations that brilliantly captures the energy and wildness of a young America where anything was possible. It is a startling debut.


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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780802121189 Book cover for 9781410462961
 
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (October 30, 2013)
9781410462961 | details & prices | 641 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.50 in. | 1.54 lbs | List price $30.99
About: A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week and one of Library Journal's Hot Debuts for SummerPreacher's son Angel Woolsack flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, and settles with his adopted brothers on West Florida's rough frontier where American settlers are carving their place out of lands held by the Spaniards and the French.
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from Grove Pr (May 28, 2013)
9780802121189 | details & prices | 457 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.75 in. | 1.65 lbs | List price $25.00
About: One of the most powerful and impressive debuts Grove/Atlantic has ever published, The Blood of Heaven is an epic novel about the American frontier in the early days of the nineteenth century.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780802121196
 
Reprint edition from Grove Pr (June 10, 2014)
9780802121196 | details & prices | 455 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.25 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $16.00
About: The Blood of Heaven is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher’s son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, then settles with his adopted brothers on the rough frontier of West Florida, where American settlers are carving their place out of lands held by the Spaniards and the French.

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