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"Majestic . . . epic . . . vital . . . a necessary piece in a uniquely American mosaic." --The New York Times Book Review
“You can hear echoes of Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy in Lent’s prose. But the presiding geniuses of this dark novel’s painterly, poetic scenes are Robert Frost and the artist Winslow Homer . . . flint-eyed Yankees who never saw a paradise that didn't have a snake.”— Newsweek “The saga’s complexity and the faultless grace of Jeffrey Lent’s language bespeak a seasoned writer. . . . Lent takes the most calamitous period in American history and breathes sharp, vivid breath into it.”--The Baltimore Sun “Contains wisdom, gravity, beauty, horror and grace. I've never read a novel where race mattered so little and so much at the same time. It is a tribute to Lent’s skill and insight that he negotiates this shifting ground with such facility, delivering a denouement.”– Minneapolis Star Tribune “Jeffrey Lent’s In the Fall is an extraordinary first novel which bears no resemblance to a first novel. Lent has the absolute mastery to create his own reality. It is a fulsome and harrowing tale and I cannot recommend it highly enough.”--Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall and The River Swimmer |
Photo Credit: Esther Haynes Lent
