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Synopsis
After running away from home, Angel Woolsack settles on the rough frontier of West Florida where he is swept up in a plot by would-be revolutionaries to break away from the young United States and create a new country under the leadership of Aaron Burr.
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An exceptionally eloquent and assured debut. * The Sunday Times * Wascom is able to create an eerie bond between America's past and its present. * FT * 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 compelling saga of violence, ambition and love... an extraordinary voice telling an extraordinary story. * BBC History * The Blood of Heaven entertains with its energetic language and fast-paced action, and the love story between Angel and his wife is moving in its you-and-me-against-the-world naivete. Wascom's research is put to good use as the gargantuan forces of history squash Angel and his associates. * New York Times Book Review * 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 *
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Get ready for an epic debut novel of insurrection and ambition, love and revenge, set in fledgling independent America. This astonishing debut is reminiscent of the finest of early Cormac McCarthy.
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 141046296X
- ISBN 13 9781410462961
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages641
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