{"product_id":"honey-from-the-lion-9781940596082","title":"Honey from the Lion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this lyrical and suspenseful debut novel, a turn-of-the-century logging company decimates ten thousand acres of virgin forest in the West Virginia Alleghenies--and transforms a brotherhood of timber wolves into revolutionaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter fleeing his childhood farm in the wake of scandal, Cur Greathouse arrives at the Cheat River Paper \u0026amp; Pulp Company's Blackpine camp, where an unlikely family of sawyers offers him new hope. But the work there is exacting and dangerous--with men's worth measured in ledger columns. Whispers of a union strike pass from bunk to bunk. Against the rasp of the misery whip and the crash of felled hemlock and red spruce, Cur encounters a cast of characters who will challenge his loyalties: a minister grasping after his dwindling congregation, a Syrian peddler who longs to put down his pack and open a store, a slighted Slovenian wife turned activist, and a trio of reckless land barons. Cur must accept or betray the call to lead a rebellion--and finally reconcile a forbidden love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eManuel Mu oz says of reading Matthew Neill Null's image-rich prose, \"The real pleasure--and certainly not the only one--is in the sentences, as complex, deliberately assured, and lethal as Flannery O'Connor's.\" A startling elegy that establishes its author as a tremendous new literary voice, \u003cem\u003eHoney from the Lion\u003c\/em\u003e evokes the ecological devastation and human tragedy behind the Gilded Age, and sings both the land and ordinary lives in all their extraordinary resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lookout Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781940596082\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2015 pg. 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2015 pg. 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2015 pg. 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/26\/2015\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Matthew Neill Null","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42561945239733,"sku":"9781940596082","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f530986c-51b0-4671-b4b4-37f9aff18d1f.jpg?v=1670943386","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/honey-from-the-lion-9781940596082","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}