Sleep Toward Heaven 20pk RGG - Softcover
About the Author:
Review:
Amanda Eyre Ward was born in New York City and graduated from Williams College and the University of Montana. Her short stories have been published in Story Quarterly, Mississippi Review, New Delta Review, Salon.com, and Austin Chronicle. Ward is a regular contributor to the Austin Chronicle. This is her first novel.
“Darkly humorous...Ward’s astonishing debut blends pathos and suspense into the rarest of fictional breeds-a literary page-turner.” (BookPage)
“Surprisingly sympathetic...smartly rendered. Nothing about Sleep Toward Heaven reads like a first novel. Sophisticated...unerring.... “ (Texas Monthly)
“[Ward] gives us vivid, often jarring images of life in and about women’s death row. Remarkable and surprising....” (Texas Observer)
“Like a Rorschach test, Sleep Toward Heaven...prompt[s] readers to look into their own minds and hearts.” (Charlotte Observer)
“The grace with which Ward writes... comples the reader to turn every page....” (Omaha Pulp)
“Surprisingly sympathetic...smartly rendered. Nothing about Sleep Toward Heaven reads like a first novel. Sophisticated...unerring.... “ (Texas Monthly)
“[Ward] gives us vivid, often jarring images of life in and about women’s death row. Remarkable and surprising....” (Texas Observer)
“Like a Rorschach test, Sleep Toward Heaven...prompt[s] readers to look into their own minds and hearts.” (Charlotte Observer)
“The grace with which Ward writes... comples the reader to turn every page....” (Omaha Pulp)
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- PublisherHarpPeren
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0060592567
- ISBN 13 9780060592561
- BindingPaperback
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