Coming in May 2017
Before We Sleep
Before We Sleep
"Jeffrey Lent is an honest writer, one brave enough to offer up a man's soul stripped of anything that might protect it...a passionate novelist whose graceful peculiarity only makes his work all the richer."
-The Globe & Mail
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November 21st 2015 Reading at the White River Craft Center in Randolph, VT, co-sponsored by the Kimball Library.
Jack Rowell, Photograhy |
Advance Praise for Before We Sleep
From other writers:
"Unfailingly entertaining, profound and elegantly crafted and written, Before We Sleep is Lent's most majestic novel to date. one of the finest books to ever come out of rural America." -Howard Frank Mosher
"Jeffrey Lent has quietly created some of the finest novels of our new century. This beautifully written novel depicts familial and generational conflicts without accusation of condescension, becoming a profound depiction of mid-twentieth-century America." -Ron Rash
"Jeffrey Lent builds characters and their world like a painter layering his canvas, telling his story but substantiating it with color and light. I fell in love with Katey Snow bravely stepping out of small-town restrictions into the newly fashioned possibilities of the late sixties; and with Oliver Snow, who's done the opposite: stepped back into the shadows, yet given as much tenderness and love to Ruth and Katey as any man could." -Tim Pears
"Sentence by sentence rural New England comes alive, and Lent's language draws you in like a clear stream in summer." -Tim Gautreaux
From Pre-Publication Reviews:
"Lent, a quiety bold writer who rarely takes the expected path, makes this novel as much about mothers and daughters as about men and war...The interplay between their stories makes for a heartbreaking examination of the fraught bonds of kinship and community. Beautifully written and powerfully compassionate: more fine work from a modern master." -Kirkus Reviews
"Shifting between the end of the war and the political fallout of the following decades, Lent draws a parallel across time, connecting the vastly different yet similar lives of a mother and daughter each struggling to find her way through the secrets that have defined her-often not through their own doing. Lent's fine prose depicts the touching physical and emotional journeys of the Snow family against a backdrop of the magical New England landscape."
-Publisher's Weekly
"Elegiac...Chronicling Katey's parents' fledgling marriage with piercing acuity, Lent devotes half the narrative to that earlier generation...Luxurious and deliberate...For admirers of Emma Cline's The Girls,here is a less sensational but worthy companion." -Library Journal
"Jeffrey Lent has quietly created some of the finest novels of our new century. This beautifully written novel depicts familial and generational conflicts without accusation of condescension, becoming a profound depiction of mid-twentieth-century America." -Ron Rash
"Jeffrey Lent builds characters and their world like a painter layering his canvas, telling his story but substantiating it with color and light. I fell in love with Katey Snow bravely stepping out of small-town restrictions into the newly fashioned possibilities of the late sixties; and with Oliver Snow, who's done the opposite: stepped back into the shadows, yet given as much tenderness and love to Ruth and Katey as any man could." -Tim Pears
"Sentence by sentence rural New England comes alive, and Lent's language draws you in like a clear stream in summer." -Tim Gautreaux
From Pre-Publication Reviews:
"Lent, a quiety bold writer who rarely takes the expected path, makes this novel as much about mothers and daughters as about men and war...The interplay between their stories makes for a heartbreaking examination of the fraught bonds of kinship and community. Beautifully written and powerfully compassionate: more fine work from a modern master." -Kirkus Reviews
"Shifting between the end of the war and the political fallout of the following decades, Lent draws a parallel across time, connecting the vastly different yet similar lives of a mother and daughter each struggling to find her way through the secrets that have defined her-often not through their own doing. Lent's fine prose depicts the touching physical and emotional journeys of the Snow family against a backdrop of the magical New England landscape."
-Publisher's Weekly
"Elegiac...Chronicling Katey's parents' fledgling marriage with piercing acuity, Lent devotes half the narrative to that earlier generation...Luxurious and deliberate...For admirers of Emma Cline's The Girls,here is a less sensational but worthy companion." -Library Journal
