Make My Bed In Hell -- John Sanford

<b>"The prose is fresh and energetic, the story-telling superb, and the writing comes out as raw and terrifying as an exposed nerve." <i>New York Times</i></b> <p>Aaron 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.<p>This literary masterpiece, back in print for the first time in over 60 years, includes a new Afterword by Jack Mearns, author of <i>John Sanford: An Annotated Bibliography</i><p>"A first-rate story of violence and congealed hate." <i>New Republic</i><p>"The story is electrifying." <i>Saturday Review of Literature</i><p>"A brief, fast book, and those pages are terse. Sanford has injected the drama of spilled blood that made America." <i>Los Angeles Times </i><p>"An unusual book with some brilliant pieces of writing, exceeding Celine and Faulkner in depravity and language." <i>Kirkus Reviews</i><p><br><br><b>Author:</b> John Sanford<br><b>Publisher:</b> Cutting Edge Publishing<br><b>Published:</b> 04/30/2021<br><b>Pag