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The Fire Gospels takes place in the McCutcheon River Valley during a long-standing drought. Through characters like Grady McCann, a hardworking maintenance man at an old folks’ home; his wife, Erica, a strangely evangelical Catholic; and Lucky Littlefield, the local weatherman turned preacher who enjoins his viewers to “pray for rain” at the beginning of each broadcast, The Fire Gospels tells in vivid detail the story of the draught and how the townspeople are seduced into believing that Lucky will pull them through their time of struggle.
Price: $9.99
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Imprint: Dzanc Books
Publication Date:
05 December 2023
ISBN: 9781950539543
Format: eBook
BISACs:
FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Humorous / General
“Mike Magnuson hits the first page running, a torch in either hand, and by the time he has burned on through to the other side, he has left a story that is beautiful and terrible and one that lingers in the mind and heart. This is my kind of story.” –Harry Crews
“The Fire Gospels has a fast-paced plot that rips across these characters as the fire does the land.” –New York Times Book Review.
“Comic, violent, profane, and apocalyptic, The Fire Gospels explodes on the page. Read it for its energy and Wisconsin-gothic characters; read it most of all for the rock and roll and jolt of its language, its seamless nightmare vision and dark song.” –Andrea Barrett
“The Fire Gospels is a prodigally ambitious novel…a fable with a Flannery O’Connor-esque more: Be good, be true, and beware the great flamemaker in the sky.” –Esquire
“The Fire Gospels has a fast-paced plot that rips across these characters as the fire does the land.” –New York Times Book Review.