Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying tells of a horrible epidemic that has gripped the town in a vise of fear and death.
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..
Jacob Hansen, Friendship\'s sheriff, undertaker, and pastor, is soon overwhelmed by the fear and anguish around him, and his sanity begins to fray. --Chuck 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.
It\'s twisted proof that God will do worse to test a faithful man than the devil would ever do to punish a sinner. --Dennis Lehane, Entertainment Weekly A Prayer for the Dying reads like the amazing, unrelenting love child of Shirley Jackson and Cormac McCarthy.
New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A new masterpiece of American literature.
Dark, poetic, and chilling, it makes one consider if it\'s possible to be a good man in a time of madness.
Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying tells of a horrible epidemic that has gripped the town in a vise of fear and death
