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**AD-TEAM** · 09-14-2024, 02:41 PM

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Quote: The acclaimed author's "mesmerizing tale" of a young man and woman who struggle to survive in the remote, disputed territory of 19th-century New Hampshire (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

With an oxcart full of rum, a man known as Blood travels through the wild country of New England toward an ungoverned territory called the Indian Stream-a land where the luckless or outlawed can make a fresh start. Blood is a man of contradictions, of learning and wisdom, but also a man with a secret past that has scorched his soul. Intending to establish himself as a prosperous trader, he brings with him Sally, a sixteen-year-old girl he won from her mother in a game of cards.

Blood and Sally's arrival in the Indian Stream triggers an escalating series of clashes that soon destroy the master/servant bond between them, offering both a second chance with life. But as the conflicts within the community attract the attention of outside authorities, Blood becomes a target for those in need of a scapegoat, forcing him to confront dreaded apparitions from his past, while Sally is offered a final escape.

"In intensely charged prose very reminiscent of Faulkner's," Lost Nation delves beneath the bright, promising veneer of early-nineteenth-century New England to reveal a startling, violent parable of individualism and nationhood ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

"A rousing tale that will surely please the readers of his first, bestselling novel, In the Fall." - Publishers Weekly

"Jeffrey Lent has quietly created some of the finest novels of our new century." -Ron Rash

"Sentence by sentence rural New England comes alive, and Lent's language draws you in like a clear stream in summer." -Tim Gautreaux

Category:Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Westerns, 19th Century Historical Fiction - General & Miscellaneous, Western - Frontier

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