The Blood of Paradise - Hardcover

Stephen Goodwin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525068465 ISBN 13: 9780525068464

Publisher: E. P. Dutton, 1979

Synopsis

Book by Stephen Goodwin

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Goodwin's first novel was Kin. He is Professor of Creative Writing at George Mason University. His short fiction and criticism have appeared in Shenandoah, Sewanee Review, and The New Republic. Richard Bausch is the author of numerous books of fiction, most recently the novel, In the Night Season.

Review:

The Blood of Paradise is suffused with a radiance only rarely bestowed upon the incidents of ordinary life.

A lucid, persuasive, self-aware work of pastoral realism, centering on a thoroughly modern young family's struggle to homestead, for aesthetic reasons, in Virginia's Appalachian Mountains.

A book that seems laden, rich, powerful. It tells a complicated story without any attempts to analyze or oversimplify, and the three characters at its center are so profoundly alive that whatever room you're reading this in will seem densely populated.

Stephen Goodwin assembles his materials with grace and precision, as if he were building a log mansion in a virgin forest, and he traces most subtly the shifting hopes and needs of the husband and wife, as four seasons give and take life around them (both wild and domestic) at a rate that seems wonderful and terrible by turns.

About this edition

• Publisher: E. P. Dutton
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0525068465
• ISBN 13: 9780525068464
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1