Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Fred Kaplan refashions our image of Mark Twain and etc
and an odd collection of tenants in her crumbling family mansion
he never stopped believing it could have been so many more
Like it or not
a woman who spends a lifetime in search of a man strong enough to be her equal - and of the men who suffer for their devotion
A Prayer for the Dying History & Criticism Pulitzer Prize and National BookA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying tells 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, A Prayer for the