Research Catalog

Title

A slant of light : a novel / Jeffrey Lent.

Author

Lent, Jeffrey.

Publication

New York : Bloomsbury, 2015.

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Details

Description

357 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"The powerful new work from one of our greatest historical novelists, A Slant of Light deals with profoundly seminal American moments: the end of the Civil War, the religious freedom that was manifested in the Second Great Awakening, the last gasps of the Jeffersonian ideal of American yeomanry, the shadow on the horizon of the Industrial Revolution. At the heart of the novel are two men: one who has committed a horrific act, but is slowly revealed to be a man of honor and integrity; the other, a seemingly righteous man of great spiritual dedication, whose lust for power within his community will eventually blind him to his own actions. These two men are surrounded by a varied host of others, many damaged but stronger for it: a veteran profoundly changed by war, a father tormented by the loss of his daughter, a Seneca man more powerful than others realize, a boy forced too early to become a man. And in this male world, women, too, are assuming new strength--through the roles they take on, and the loves they allow themselves. A Slant of Light is a novel of lust and love, of loss and war, of prophets and followers, of theft and revenge, in an American moment where a seemingly golden age has been shattered. It is a novel about how people make sense of such things, and how they remake their lives"--

Subjects

• Historical fiction
• United States > History > 19th century > Fiction
• FICTION / Literary

Genre/Form

Historical fiction.

Call Number

JFE 15-2927

ISBN

• 9781620404966
• 1620404966

LCCN

2014021632

OCLC

2014021632

Author

Lent, Jeffrey.

Title

A slant of light : a novel / Jeffrey Lent.

Publisher

New York : Bloomsbury, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JFE 15-2927