{"product_id":"9781466853256","title":"A Prayer for the Dying: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eNotable Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A new masterpiece of American literature.” —Dennis Lehane, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Prayer for the Dying\u003c\/i\u003e  reads like the amazing, unrelenting  love child of Shirley Jackson and  Cormac McCarthy. It’s twisted proof  that God will do worse to test a  faithful man than the devil would ever  do to punish a sinner.” —Chuck Palahniuk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, \u003ci\u003eA Prayer for the Dying \u003c\/i\u003etells  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, Stewart O'Nan's \u003ci\u003eA Prayer for the Dying\u003c\/i\u003e examines the effect of madness and violence on the morality of a once-decent man.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143856210160,"sku":"9781466853256","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466853256_p0.jpg?v=1769891573","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466853256","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}