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Set in postCivil War Wisconsin, a small town is petrified with fear as an epidemic overwhelms their community with sickness and death. Reprint.
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearSet in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dyingtells 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, A Prayer for the Dying examines the effect of madness and violence on the morality of a once-decent man.
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