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New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
âA new masterpiece of American literature.â âDennis Lehane, Entertainment Weekly
âA Prayer for the Dying reads like the amazing, unrelenting love child of Shirley Jackson and Cormac McCarthy. Itâs twisted proof that God will do worse to test a faithful man than the devil would ever do to punish a sinner.â âChuck 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.
About: New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearâA new masterpiece of American literature.
About: Chronicles the strange arrival of a deadly epidemic in a post-Civil War Wisconsin town, as sheriff Jacob Hansen tries to maintain order
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