{"product_id":"9781940596082","title":"Honey from the Lion","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHoney from the Lion: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e, a lyrical and suspenseful debut novel, a turn-of-the-century logging company decimates ten thousand acres of virgin forest in the West Virginia Alleghenies—and transforms a brotherhood of timber wolves into revolutionaries.\u003cbr\u003eAfter fleeing his childhood farm in the wake of scandal, Cur Greathouse arrives at the Cheat River Paper \u0026amp; Pulp Company's Blackpine camp, where an unlikely family of sawyers offers him new hope. But the work there is exacting and dangerous—with men's worth measured in ledger columns. Whispers of a union strike pass from bunk to bunk. Against the rasp of the misery whip and the crash of felled hemlock and red spruce, Cur encounters a cast of characters who will challenge his loyalties: a minister grasping after his dwindling congregation, a Syrian peddler who longs to put down his pack and open a store, a slighted Slovenian wife turned activist, and a trio of reckless land barons. Cur must accept or betray the call to lead a rebellion—and finally reconcile a forbidden love.\u003cbr\u003eManuel Muñoz says of reading Matthew Neill Null's image-rich prose, \"The real pleasure—and certainly not the only one—is in the sentences, as complex, deliberately assured, and lethal as Flannery O'Connor's.\" A startling elegy that establishes its author as a tremendous new literary voice, \u003ci\u003eHoney from the Lion\u003c\/i\u003e evokes the ecological devastation and human tragedy behind the Gilded Age, and sings both the land and ordinary lives in all their extraordinary resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lookout Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050821599472,"sku":"9781940596082","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940596082_p0.jpg?v=1763668586","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940596082","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}