ADDITIONAL PRAISE FOR A Prayer for the Dying
A Salon.com Book Award Winner
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
International Horror Guild Novel of the Year
“Mr. O’Nan, a young writer of unusual range and variety, is a master of voices and the place they resonate from, of human rhythms and the universal rhythms they cut across.”
—Richard Eder, The New York Times
“Haunting … There’s no doubting this award-winning writer’s gift for the telling detail, the illuminating nuance that lifts a book from good to memorable.… A tough book to shake.”
—David Kipen, San Francisco Chronicle
“Stewart O’Nan could well be the best unsung American writing fiction.… O’Nan’s most haunting book to date, a gripping work of raw power … a story that leaves footprints across the soul.”
—Robin Vidimos, The Denver Post
“As eloquent as it is unsettling.”
—Elizabeth Bukowski, The Wall Street Journal
“A deeply unsettling and sophisticated horror story … O’Nan transforms this seemingly conventional tale about a good man struggling against terrible circumstances into a brilliant exploration of evil and solipsism.”
—Megan Harlan, Entertainment Weekly
“Powerful, beautiful … A brief, mesmerizing novel that chills the bones, crushes the heart.”
—Jerome Weeks, The Dallas Morning News
“A horror story of subtlety and elegance that coaxes the reader from one shiveringly delicious conclusion to the next.”
—Helen Verongos, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“O’Nan takes his already noir sensibility and turns it up a notch. He has created a spare, ominous portrait of a small Wisconsin town in the years after the Civil War, and the result is as subtle and insistent as an autumnal twilight.”
—Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe
ALSO BY STEWART O’NAN
Songs for the Missing
Last Night at the Lobster
The Good Wife
The Night Country
Wish You Were Here
Everyday People
A World Away
The Speed Queen
The Names of the Dead
Snow Angels
STORIES
In the Walled City
NONFICTION
The Circus Fire
Faithful (with Stephen King)
AS EDITOR
The Vietnam Reader
On Writers and Writing (by John Gardner)
Stewart O’Nan is the author of eleven novels, including Songs for the Missing and Snow Angels, a story collection, and two works of nonfiction. His previous novel, Last Night at the Lobster, was a national bestseller and was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was named one of the New York Public Library’s Books to Remember. Additionally, Granta named him one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists. O’Nan lives with his family in Avon, Connecticut.
A PRAYER FOR THE DYING. Copyright © 1999 by Stewart O’Nan. All rights reserved. For information, address Picador, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42891-4
ISBN-10: 0-312-42891-X
First published in the United States by Henry Holt and Company
First Picador Edition: April 2000
Second Picador Edition: June 2009
eISBN 9781466853256
First eBook edition: August 2013
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