{"product_id":"make-my-bed-in-hell-hardcover","title":"Make My Bed In Hell - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Sanford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The prose is fresh and energetic, the story-telling superb, and the writing comes out as raw and terrifying as an exposed nerve.\" \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAaron Platt has spent every day of his life breaking his back to scrape a living from the rocky, played-out fields of the Adirondack farm he inherited from his sadistic father. One winter morning, he follows footprints in the snow to his barn and discovers a man freezing to death in a horse stall. What unfolds between the two men, past and present, is a brisk, gritty depiction of crime and punishment. But their harrowing story is more than that, exposing the shocking hypocrisy of the people who live in the nearby, bucolic town-a legacy of hatred that reaches back to the violent founding of the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis literary masterpiece, back in print for the first time in over 60 years, includes a new Afterword by Jack Mearns, author of \u003ci\u003eJohn Sanford: An Annotated Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A first-rate story of violence and congealed hate.\" \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The story is electrifying.\" \u003ci\u003eSaturday Review of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A brief, fast book, and those pages are terse. Sanford has injected the drama of spilled blood that made America.\" \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An unusual book with some brilliant pieces of writing, exceeding Celine and Faulkner in depravity and language.\" \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 182\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42092698534023,"sku":"9781954841819","price":44.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/7dfd0726e0fae448016ec81986811311.webp?v=1732304072","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/make-my-bed-in-hell-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}