Lost nation - Jeffrey Lent

An epic of the American wild country from the bestselling author of IN THE FALLSet in the early 19th century, LOST NATION opens as a man, known only as Blood, is guiding an oxcart of rum towards the Indian Stream, an ungoverned territory high in the wild country of New Hampshire. A man with a secret past that has scorched his soul, Blood sets forth to establish himself as a trader, hauling with him Sally, a sixteen-year-old girl whom he has won in a game of cards. But their arrival in the Indian Stream triggers a series of clashes of increasing violence, and Blood is finally forced to confront his ghosts.Jeffrey Lent carries us deep into conditions of desolation and hardship, but at the same time maintains the relentless beat of hope. Written in lucid and seductive prose, LOST NATION resoundingly confirms Jeffrey Lent's place in the front rank of modern novelists.'While the classic western naturally concentrates on the West, there were pockets in the East that were as wild as Dodge City, and Lent has found one in his second novel . . . a rousing tale that will surely please the readers of his first, bestselling novel, In the Fall' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'Majestic . . . epic . . . a vital book' New York Times on IN THE FALL