Description: All the World Beside by Garrard Conley An electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan America. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community in Puritan New England. One disciple, Dr Arthur Lyman, discovers in the ministers words a love so captivating it transcends language.As the bond between the two men grows more and more passionate, their wives and children must contend with a tangled web of secrets, lies and judgments that threatens to destroy them in this world and the next.Set during the turbulent historical upheavals that shaped America, All the World Beside reveals the very human lives just beneath the surface of dogmatic belief. Author Biography Garrard Conley is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Boy Erased, as well as the creator and co-producer of the podcast UnErased: The History of Conversion Therapy in America. His work has been published by the New York Times, Oxford American, Time and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Conley is a graduate of Brooklyn Colleges MFA program, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow specializing in fiction. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at Kennesaw State University. Review A gorgeous, spellbinding work of historical fiction that conjures up a society wrestling with faith, love and a sense of belonging. It is a heartbreaking account of forbidden passions and lost innocence told with intimate, lyrical beauty. It is truly sublime. I loved it -- Douglas StuartPart spell, part prayer, wholly mesmerizing. Garrard Conley casts the same magic in fiction as in the memoir that made him famous -- Torrey Peters, author of DETRANSITION BABYIn this accomplishment of breathtaking prose, expert pacing and extraordinary psychological intelligence, Conley presents a world as it was, as it is, and as it could be. A triumph. -- Tess Gunty, author of THE RABBIT HUTCHA soaring, beautiful novel, at once sweeping and deeply personal...Part restoration and part reclamation, Conleys bold new American myth simply sings -- Brandon Taylor, author of THE LATE AMERICANSGarrard Conley has found a new and ravishing music: a language that straddles the 18th and 21st centuries, a vehicle for faith and desire. In its closing movements, this novel contains some of the finest writing Ive encountered in recent American fiction -- Garth Greenwell, author of CLEANNESSTeaches us that in Puritan America the scarlet letter was not A for adultery but H for homosexuality and that the only romance with God is tense and tragic -- Edmund White Details ISBN1804710873 Author Garrard Conley Pages 352 Publisher Atlantic Books Edition Description Export/Airside Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781804710876 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-07-04 Imprint Grove Press Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Audience General UK Release Date 2024-07-04 Language English ISBN-10 1804710873 NZ Release Date 2024-09-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161883071;
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