Honey from the Lion

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Honey from the Lion

In this lyrical and suspenseful debut novel, a turn-of-the-century logging company decimates ten thousand acres of virgin forest in the West Virginia Alleghenies and transforms a brotherhood of timber wolves into revolutionaries.

After fleeing his childhood farm in the wake of scandal, Cur Greathouse arrives at the Cheat River Paper & Pulp Companyâ€™s Blackpine camp, where an unlikely family of sawyers offers him new hope. But the work there is exacting and dangerous with menâ€™s worth measured in ledger columns. Whispers of a union strike pass from bunk to bunk. Against the rasp of the misery whip and the crash of felled hemlock and red spruce, Cur encounters a cast of characters who will challenge his loyalties: a minister grasping after his dwindling congregation, a Syrian peddler who longs to put down his pack and open a store, a slighted Slovenian wife turned activist, and a trio of reckless land barons. Cur must accept or betray the call to lead a rebellion and finally reconcile a forbidden love.

Manuel MuÃ±oz says of reading Matthew Neill Nullâ€™s image-rich prose, â€œThe real pleasure and certainly not the only one is in the sentences, as complex, deliberately assured, and lethal as Flannery Oâ€™Connorâ€™s. A startling elegy that establishes its author as a tremendous new literary voice, Honey from the Lion evokes the ecological devastation and human tragedy behind the Gilded Age, and sings both the land and ordinary lives in all their extraordinary resilience.â€

Country	USA
Author	Matthew Neill Null
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781940596099
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Lookout Books
Manufacturer	Lookout Books
PublicationDate	2015-10-13
Publisher	Lookout Books
ReleaseDate	2015-10-13
Studio	Lookout Books

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