The Blood of Heaven - Hardcover

Wascom, Kent

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802121187 ISBN 13: 9780802121189

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013

Synopsis

<div>One of the most powerful and impressive debuts Grove/Atlantic has ever published, <i>The Blood of Heaven</i> 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 matter their age.<br><br><i>The Blood of Heaven</i> is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher&#8217;s son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, then settles with his adopted brothers on the rough frontier of West Florida, where American settlers are carving their place out of lands held by the Spaniards and the French. The novel moves from the bordellos of Natchez, where Angel meets his love Red Kate to the Mississippi River plantations, where the brutal system of slave labor is creating fantastic wealth along with terrible suffering, and finally to the back rooms of New Orleans among schemers, dreamers, and would-be revolutionaries plotting to break away from the young United States and create a new country under the leadership of the renegade founding father Aaron Burr.<br><br><i>The Blood of Heaven</i> is a remarkable portrait of a young man seizing his place in a violent new world, a moving love story, and a vivid tale of ambition and political machinations that brilliantly captures the energy and wildness of a young America where anything was possible. It is a startling debut.</div>

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About the Author

<div>Kent Wascom was born in New Orleans in 1986, and spent his childhood in Louisiana and Pensacola, Florida. He attended Louisiana State University and received his MFA from Florida State University. In 2012, he won the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for fiction, judged by Amy Hempel. Wascom lives in Tallahassee, Florida. <i>The Blood of Heaven</i> is his first novel.</div>

Edition details

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802121187
• ISBN 13: 9780802121189
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432