Thanks for checking out my listing!  Offered is a a fantastic lot of 2 historical fiction novels by Jeffrey Lent.  The lot includes In The Fall and Lost Nation.  Please read further!

DESCRIPTION:

• IN THE FALL - by Jeffrey Lent
  New York: Atlantic Monthly Press (2000); ISBN 0-87113-765-8; Number Line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2); 542 Pages; Hardcover in Dust Jacket (price not clipped); Price $25.00.
• In the twilight of the Civil War, a Union soldier named Norman Pelham, battle-wounded and near death, is found by Leah, a slave running from a different hell.  After Leah nurses him back to health, Norman brings her to his family homestead in Vermont as his wife, and there they begin a family that will be shaped by their passionate devotion to each other and the consequences of their union.  As her children approach adulthood, Leah is compelled to return to the South to confront the demons from which she fled many years before.  Her journey will yield devastation for the entire family, transforming Norman and their two daughters forever and causing their son to turn his back on his family in favor of the anonymous, gas-lit world of bootlegging and nightclubs.  Not until the next generation will the family's secrets come to light, when their grandson is driven to retrace his family's history and disentangle his complicated inheritance.  What is revealed through this cycle of migration and return is the inescapable grip of bloodlines in a world where the cost of confronting the past is as severe as the cost of fleeing from it....Spanning the post-Civil War era to the edge of the Great Depression, In the Fall is a richly layered rendering of a rapidly evolving America from life on the farm, through the final years of Prohibition and bootlegging, to the advent of modern times.  In sentences that roll with a grave, brooding beauty, Jeffrey Lent illuminates the ineluctable connections that exist between black and white, North and South, past and present, as well as the violent collisions they give rise to.  In the Fall is a fierce and utterly gripping vision of an American landscape and history, and an unforgettable portrait of an American family.
• LOST NATION - by Jeffrey Lent
  New York: Atlantic Monthly Press (2002); ISBN 0-87113-843-3; Number Line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1); 370 Pages; Hardcover in Dust Jacket (price not clipped); Price $25.00.
• Lost Nation opens with a man known only as Blood guiding an oxcart of rum toward the wild country high in New Hampshire, an ungoverned territory called the Indian Stream - a land where the luckless or outlawed have made a fresh start.  Blood is a man of contradictions, of learning and wisdom, but also a man with a secret past that has scorched his soul.  He sets forth to establish himself as a trader, hauling with him Sally, a sixteen-year-old girl won from the madam of a brothel over a game of cards.  Their arrival in the Indian Stream triggers an escalating series of clashes that serve to sever the master-servant bond between them and offers both a second chance at life.  But as the conflicts within the community spill over and attract the attention of outside authorities, Blood becomes a target for those seeking easy blame for the troubles.  As plots unravel and violence escalates, two young men of uncertain identity appear, and Blood is forced to confront dread apparitions of his past while Sally is offered a final escape....Lost Nation is a vivid tale of unexpected strengths, terrible and sad misconceptions, and the yearning toward civil society in a landscape raw and with little pity for human strivings.  In prose both lucid and seductive, it carries us deep into human and natural conditions of extreme desolation and harrowing hardship, but also gives us the relentless beat of hope and, finally, the redeeming capacity of love.

CONDITION:

Both books are in very good condition.  Dust jackets have no flaws.  Spines are tight and straight.  Pages are clean and complete with no marks.  Overall its a beautiful tight collection.  Please contact me if you want more details.

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