A Land More Kind Than Home(Chinese Edition) - Softcover

Wiley Cash

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062196782 ISBN 13: 9780062196781

Publisher: William Morrow, 2012

Synopsis

Hardcover. Pub Date: 2012 Pages: 320 Publisher: William Morrow A Stunning debut reminiscent of The beloved novels of John Hart and Tom Franklin. A Land More Kind Than Home is A Mesmerizing literary thriller about The Bond between two others and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina townFor a curious boy like Jess Hall. growing up in Marshall means trouble when your mother catches you spying on grown-ups. Adventurous and precocious. Jess is enormously protective of his older other. Christopher. a mute whom everyone calls Stump. Though their mother has warned them not to snoop. Stump can't help sneaking a look at something he's not supposed to-an act that will have catastrophic repercussions. shattering both his world and Jess's. It's a wrenching event that thrusts Jess into an adulthood for which he's not prepared. While there is much about the world that still...

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Review:

"I think this could be the beginning of a long, fruitful career" (Ernest J. Gaines, author of "A Lesson Before Dying" and "The Autobiography of Jane Pittman")

"One of the most powerful novels I have ever read" (Fred Chappell, author of "I Am One of You Forever" and "Brighten the Corner Where You Are")

"Electrifying debut" (Financial Times)

"Cash's debut novel (A Land More Kind Than Home) is a chilling descent into the world of religious frenzy in small town North Carolina. The languid atmosphere seduces, and Cash's fine first effort pulls the reader into a shadowy, tormented world where wolves prowl in the guise of sheep" (Publishers' Weekly)

"Mesmerizing first novel... intensely felt and beautifully told" (The New York Times)

Book Description:

The winner of the CWA John Creasey Award for Best First Novel 2012 - a stunning piece of southern crime noir

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062196782
• ISBN 13: 9780062196781
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320