The Blood of Heaven

Wascom, Kent

ISBN 10: 0802121187 / ISBN 13: 9780802121189

Edité par Grove Press, New York, 2013

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First edition, hardcover, signed by Wascom on the title page, the book has a mild skew to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends, and a hint of minor smudging to the head and tail edges of the text block. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight Very Good+ copy in a like unclipped dust jacket, which has very small bumps to the spine ends and corners, faint sunning to the spine, and a touch of rubbing to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in a Mylar cover. N° de réf. du vendeur 106302

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Blood of Heaven

Éditeur : Grove Press, New York

Date d'édition : 2013

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Very Good+

Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+

Signé : Signé par l'auteur

Edition : 1st Edition.

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Synopsis :

The Blood of Heaven 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 Full description

Revue de presse:

In the present age of cultural strife and national re-definition, a brilliantly resonant novel blooming from America's ever-thus history is just what the zeitgeist deserves. And The Blood of Heaven is as achingly beautiful in its personal story as it is savagely clear-headed in its national story. Kent Wascom has arrived fully-formed as a very important American writer. --Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain
Young Kent Wascom went down to the crossroads and there he made his deal. Or maybe he was just born spirited for this kind of work. Either way, I cannot name such a stunning debut as this one. It reads as not written, but lived and remembered - and how impossible is that? Whoever may own Kent Wascom's soul, The Blood of Heaven will forever be ours. --Robert Olmstead, author of Coal Black Horse
A genuine American historical epic --D.J. Taylor
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. --Esquire
A bold, brilliant debut... It's the work of a young writer with tremendous ambition, a bildungsroman of religion and revolution... Wascom writes with a fire-breathing, impassioned eloquence. --The Washington Post
Compelling. Wascom's writing rolls from the page in torrents, like the sermon of a revivalist preacher in the grip of inspiration. You can't help listening, no matter how wicked the message. --The Wall Street Journal
An astonishingly assured debut... He is more knowing than a writer his age has any right to be and displays a virtuosic command of biblical cadence and anachronistic vernacular without striking any false notes. --San Francisco Chronicle
With its setting, its violence-driven plot and its resonant and often harshly beautiful language, The Blood of Heaven evokes comparison to the work of Cormac McCarthy... Kent Wascom is a striking new voice in American fiction. --Miami Herald