{"product_id":"a-prayer-for-the-dying-9780312428914","title":"A Prayer for the Dying","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eNotable Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A new masterpiece of American literature.\" --Dennis Lehane, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Prayer for the Dying\u003c\/i\u003e reads like the amazing, unrelenting love child of Shirley Jackson and Cormac McCarthy. It's twisted proof that God will do worse to test a faithful man than the devil would ever do to punish a sinner.\" --Chuck Palahniuk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, \u003ci\u003eA Prayer for the Dying \u003c\/i\u003etells of a horrible epidemic that is suddenly and gruesomely killing the town's residents and setting off a terrifying paranoia. Jacob Hansen, Friendship's sheriff, undertaker, and pastor, is soon overwhelmed by the fear and anguish around him, and his sanity begins to fray. Dark, poetic, and chilling, Stewart O'Nan's \u003ci\u003eA Prayer for the Dying\u003c\/i\u003e examines the effect of madness and violence on the morality of a once-decent man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312428914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Stewart O'Nan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635884847260,"sku":"9780312428914","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_353be2d5-7e5d-450d-9c18-eff6a8e52d35.jpg?v=1603840793","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-prayer-for-the-dying-9780312428914","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}