Lividian Publications is proud to be publishing a deluxe signed, numbered, and slipcased Limited Edition hardcover of
by Stewart O’Nan. This special edition has been lavishly crafted with collectors and readers alike in mind. François Vaillancourt provided stunning color artwork for the dust jacket and frontispiece, plus ten black and white illustrations for the interior, making this a true work of art. As a special bonus, “Good Man Mad” by Patrick McGrath is included as an afterword.
Deluxe Production Features:
Offset printed on an acid-free archival quality paper stock
A fine cloth binding
Hot foil stamping on the front cover and spine
Smyth-sewn to create a more durable binding
Twine head and tail bands
High-quality endpapers
Sewn-in satin ribbon page marker
Custom-made slipcase stamped with hot foil and featuring a unique die-cut window
Signed by Stewart O’Nan and François Vaillancourt
Limited to 600 signed and numbered copies
About the Book:Dark, poetic, and chilling,
A Prayer for the Dying asks if it’s possible to be a good man in a time of madness.
Set in leafy Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War,
A Prayer for the Dying opens harmlessly on a languid summer day; only slowly do events reveal themselves as sinister, bloom gently into a shared nightmare, as one neighbor after another succumbs to a creeping, always fatal disease. Our sole witness to this epidemic is Jacob Hansen, Friendship’s sheriff, undertaker, and pastor, a man with a large heart and conscience.
As the disease engulfs his town, breeding hysteria, Jacob must find a humane way to save hose he loves, short of calling up a full quarantine and boarding up the sick in their houses. And what of the tramps slipping nightly through the tinder dry woods, and the spiritualists on the edge of town with their charismatic leaders, Chase. Who will bury the dead properly, if not Jacob?
A Prayer for the Dying is a rare and scary book, Stewart O’Nan’s most astounding achievement yet, a sunlit Gothic painted in shimmering prose that darkens and disturbs your complacency the further you go into it until – as in the best Poe and Flannery O’Connor – there is no going back.
About the Author:Stewart O’Nan’s award-winning fiction includes
Snow Angels,
Last Night at the Lobster, and
Emily,
Alone. Granta named him one of America’s Best Young Novelists. He lives in Pittsburgh.
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