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Lost Nation delves beneath the bright, promising veneer of early-nineteenth-century New England to unveil a startling parable of individualism and nationhood. The novel opens with a man known as Blood, guiding an oxcart of rum toward the wild country of New Hampshire, an ungoverned territory called the Indian Stream --…
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Jeffrey Lent's prose is spectacular, taking a little-known piece of New England history and turning it into a dark, atmospheric novel. His world building is outstanding, transporting you to a frontier New Hampshire outpost in the early 19th century, where you can feel the wind, hear the birds, smell the mud. I'm currently writing a thriller about the logging camps of Maine in the 1850s, and my aim has always been to make it into a great Eastern - a novel as redolent of the woodlands of the east as Cormac McCarthy's work is of the west. Jeffrey Lent has…
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