Ascolta tutto, gratis per 30 giorni

Approfitta dell'offerta e entra in un mondo di storie

  • Ascolta e leggi quanto vuoi
  • Oltre 400.000 titoli
  • Prova gratis per 30 giorni, poi 9.99€/mese
  • Disdici quando vuoi
  • Ascolta titoli esclusivi e Storytel Original
Prova Gratis
Device Banner Block 894x1036

The Blood of Heaven: A Novel

Lingua
Inglese
Format
Categoria

Narrativa

“The work of a young writer with tremendous ambition, a bildungsroman of religion and revolution set during an obscure chapter of American history. ” —The Washington Post

A powerful and impressive debut novel from the winner of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for fiction—first in the Woolsack family saga that continues with Secessia and The New Inheritors.

The Blood of Heaven is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher’s son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, then settles with his adopted brothers on the rough frontier of West Florida, where American settlers are carving their place out of lands held by the Spaniards and the French. The novel moves from the bordellos of Natchez, where Angel meets his love Red Kate to the Mississippi River plantations, where the brutal system of slave labor is creating fantastic wealth along with terrible suffering, and finally to the back rooms of New Orleans among schemers, dreamers, and would-be revolutionaries plotting to break away from the young United States and create a new country under the leadership of the renegade founding father Aaron Burr.

The Blood of Heaven is a remarkable portrait of a young man seizing his place in a violent new world, a moving love story, and a vivid tale of ambition and political machinations that brilliantly captures the energy and wildness of a young America where anything was possible. It is a startling debut.

“Wascom is a craftsman, and each of his lengthy, winding sentences shimmers with the tang of blood and bone and sweat, and the archaic splendor of his language. ” —The Boston Globe

© 2013 Grove Press (Ebook): 9780802193506

Data di uscita

Ebook: 4 giugno 2013

Potrebbero piacerti

  1. Dauntless Alan Evans
  2. Restoration Rose Tremain
  3. An Honourable Exit Eric Vuillard
  4. Blood & Sugar: Award-Winning Historical Crime from the Author of The Square of Sevens Laura Shepherd-Robinson
  5. Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip Richard Ratay
  6. The Final Days Bob Woodward
  7. The Age of Reinvention: A Novel Karine Tuil
  8. The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir John Bolton
  9. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz Erik Larson
  10. An Unkindness of Magicians Kat Howard
  11. Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade John O. Casler
  12. Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb James M. Scott
  13. My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes B Nora Titone
  14. The Air Raids Over Japan during World War II: The History of the Allies’ Bombing Campaigns on the Japanese Mainland Charles River Editors
  15. The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy Alexander Rose
  16. The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP Alex Tresniowski
  17. The History and Legacy of the British Empire's Most Famous Trading Companies across the World Charles River Editors
  18. The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters Joe Kraus
  19. MacArthur Richard B. Frank
  20. Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia Carolyn Woods Eisenberg
  21. General Mark Clark: Commander of America's Fifth Army in World War II and Liberator of Rome Jon B. Mikolashek
  22. Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod Ray E. Boomhower
  23. The Yanks Are Coming!: A Military History of the United States in World War I H. W. Crocker
  24. Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and US Government Teamed Up to Win World War II Matthew Black
  25. With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln Stephen B. Oates
  26. The Wall Street Bombing of 1920: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Anarchist Attack on New York City Charles River Editors
  27. Lincoln’s Spymaster: Thomas Haines Dudley and the Liverpool Network David Hepburn Milton
  28. Mexicanos, Third Edition: A History of Mexicans in the United States Manuel G. Gonzales
  29. Jefferson’s War: America’s First War on Terror 1801–1805 Joseph Wheelan
  30. Lancaster and York Alison Weir
  31. The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Fortune in the American West Gregory Crouch
  32. Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII Gareth Russell
  33. The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England Dan Jones
  34. The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea Jon Gower
  35. Captured by History: One Man’s Vision of Our Tumultuous Century John Toland
  36. 1941: Armageddon: The Road to Pearl Harbor Richard Collier
  37. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America Maggie Haberman
  38. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 Christopher Clark
  39. Homage to Catalonia George Orwell
  40. Year of the Hawk: America's Descent into Vietnam, 1965 James A. Warren
  41. The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder Lawrence Block
  42. The Nuremberg Trials: The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity Paul Roland
  43. The Battle of Britain Nigel Cawthorne
  44. Bomb Group: The Eighth Air Force's 381st and The Allied Air Offensive Over Europe Mike Peters
  45. Carrier Glorious: The Life and Death of an Aircraft Carrier John Winton
  46. Hitler's Greatest Defeat: The German Collapse, 1944 Paul Adair
  47. Nazi Sex Spies: True Stories of Seduction, Subterfuge and State Secrets Al Cimino

Scegli il tuo piano

  • Più di 400.000 titoli

  • Kids Mode (accesso sicuro per bambini)

  • Scarica e ascolta offline

  • Disdici quando vuoi

Il più popolare

Unlimited

La scelta migliore per 1 utente. Ascolta e leggi quanto vuoi.

9.99 € /mese
  • 1 account

  • Ascolto illimitato

  • Disdici quando vuoi

Prova ora

Unlimited Annuale

12 mesi al prezzo di 9. Ascolta e leggi quanto vuoi.

89.99 € /anno
Risparmia il 25%
  • 1 account

  • Ascolto illimitato

  • Disdici quando vuoi

Prova ora

Unlimited+

Storie per tutta la famiglia. Entrate insieme in un mondo di storie.

14.99 € /mese
  • 2 account

  • Ascolto illimitato

  • Disdici quando vuoi

Prova ora

Basic

Per te che non sei un avido ascoltatore.

6.49 € /mese
  • 1 account

  • 10 ore/mese

  • Disdici quando vuoi

Prova ora