A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
A New York Times bestseller and winner of the UK's John Creasey Award for Debut Crime Novel of the Year 'Mesmerizing. Intensely felt and beautifully told' New York Times One Sunday nine-year-old Jess Hall watches in horror as his autistic brother is smothered during a healing service in the mountains of North Carolina. Wiley Cash uses this haunting image - inspired by a horrific true event - to spin us into a spellbinding, heartbreaking story about cruelty and innocence, and the failure of faith and family to protect a child. This is a novel thick with stories and characters connected by faith, infidelity, and a sense of hope that is both tragic and unforgettable.
MesmerizingIntensely felt and beautifully told * New York Times *
I guarantee you will be thinking about this novel for days after you have finished the final page. This novel flexes its muscles and with breath-taking prose delivers a punch worthy of Mohammed Ali * Crimesquad.com *
Electrifying debut * Financial Times *
One of the most powerful novels I have ever read * Fred Chappell, author of I AM ONE OF YOU FOREVER and BRIGHTEN THE CORNER WHERE YOU ARE *
I think this could be the beginning of a long, fruitful career * Ernest J. Gaines, author of A LESSON BEFORE DYING and THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN *
I guarantee you will be thinking about this novel for days after you have finished the final page. This novel flexes its muscles and with breath-taking prose delivers a punch worthy of Mohammed Ali * Crimesquad.com *
Electrifying debut * Financial Times *
One of the most powerful novels I have ever read * Fred Chappell, author of I AM ONE OF YOU FOREVER and BRIGHTEN THE CORNER WHERE YOU ARE *
I think this could be the beginning of a long, fruitful career * Ernest J. Gaines, author of A LESSON BEFORE DYING and THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN *
Wiley Cash is from western North Carolina, a region that features prominently in his writing. His first novel, A Land More Kind than Home, won the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger award for Best First Novel 2012. His second novel, A Dark Road to Mercy, was the winner of the 2014 Gold Dagger ‘Crime Novel of the Year’ Award.
Wiley teaches an MFA in fiction and non-fiction at Southern New Hampshire University. He lives with his wife and daughter in West Virginia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780552778206 |
| ISBN 10 | 0552778206 |
| Title | A Land More Kind Than Home |
| Author | Wiley Cash |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-03-28 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Winner of CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for First Novels 2012 (UK) |
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