Monday, July 29, 2013

Attention Book Groups

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)



Available as a Book Group to Go Bag.

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