and the Republic of South Africa
he never stopped believing it could have been so many more
having entered the country undercover
and unpublished stories that were absorbed into an author’s archive when they died
An invaluable record of a stunningly or
A Prayer for the Dying History & Criticism and the Republic of SouthA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying tells of a horrible epidemic that is suddenly and gruesomely killing the town's residents and setting off a terrifying paranoia. Jacob Hansen, Friendship's sheriff, undertaker, and pastor, is soon overwhelmed by the fear and anguish around him, and his sanity begins to fray. Dark, poetic, and chilling, A Prayer for the