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The Blood of Heaven : A Novel by Wascom, Kent is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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“The work of a young writer with tremendous ambition, a bildungsroman of religion and revolution set during an obscure chapter of American history.” — The Washington Post A powerful and impressive debut novel from the winner of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for fiction—first in the Woolsack family saga that continues with Secessia and The New Inheritors . The Blood of Heaven  is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher’s son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, then settles with his adopted brothers on the rough frontier of West Florida, where American settlers are carving their place out of lands held by the Spaniards and the French. The novel moves from the bordellos of Natchez, where Angel meets his love Red Kate to the Mississippi River plantations, where the brutal system of slave labor is creating fantastic wealth along with terrible suffering, and finally to the back rooms of New Orleans among schemers, dreamers, and would-be revolutionaries plotting to break away from the young United States and create a new country under the leadership of the renegade founding father Aaron Burr.

Who reads The Blood of Heaven : A Novel?

Author

Wascom, Kent

Publisher

Grove/Atlantic, Inc. : Made available through hoopla

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802193506

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction