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Bloomsbury
April 2015
On Sale: April 7, 2015
Featuring: August Swarthout; Enoch Stone; Malcolm Hopeton
368 pages
ISBN: 1620404966
EAN: 9781620404966
Kindle: 1620404966
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Historical | Fiction
At the close of the Civil War, weary veteran Malcolm Hopeton
returns
to his home in western New York State to find his wife and
hired man
missing and his farm in disrepair. A double murder ensues, the
repercussions of which ripple through a community with
spiritual roots
in the Second Great Awakening. Hopeton has gone from the
horrors of
war to those far worse, and arrayed around him are a host of
other
people struggling to make sense of his crime.
Among them is Enoch Stone, the lawyer for the community, whose
spiritual dedication is subverted by his lust for power; August
Swarthout, whose wife has left earthly time and whose eye is
set on
eternity; and a boy who must straddle two worlds as he finds
his own
truth and strength. Always there is love and the memory of
love--as
haunting as the American Eden that Jeffrey Lent has so
exquisitely
rendered in this unforgettable novel.
A Slant of Light is a novel of earthly pleasure and deep
love, of loss
and war, of prophets and followers, of theft and revenge, in an
American moment where a seemingly golden age has been
shattered. This
is Jeffrey Lent on his home ground and at the height of his
powers.
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