Set in a Wisconsin town just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying opens on a languid summer day; only slowly do events reveal themselves as sinister, 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.
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. (description from publisher)
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