John Sanford

• Sep-2013
• / General Fiction
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Written between 1943 and 1946, A Man Without Shoes â€" an epic novel of the immigrant experience in America â€" was finally self-published in 1951 after over 30 rejections. As Sanford explained 'in 1947, it was a new kind of cold altogether: McCa...

• Apr-2021
• / Literary
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The prose is fresh and energetic, the story-telling superb, and the writing comes out as raw and terrifying as an exposed nerve. New York Times Aaron Platt has spent every day of his life breaking his back to scrape a living from the rocky, played-ou...

• Apr-2021
• / General Fiction
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Sanford is a supreme master at squeezing the last drop of terror and excitement out of a sordid, savage situation. The story sweeps along with an ugly force that will send sensitive souls in search of smelling salts. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A trio of...

• Aug-2021
• / General Fiction
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The Land that Touches Mine is the sixth novel by John Sanford, author of The Old Man's Place and Make My Bed in Hell. It is a gritty, hard-boiled tale about an army deserter, who hooks up with a carhop during World War Two, amid the brutal 100-degree...

• Apr-2022
• / Literary
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The People from Heaven, John Sanford's most ambitious and searing novel, completes his Warrensburg Trilogy, digging beneath the bucolic surface of a small-town to expose the hatred at its core. A sacred book, majestic in its rebukes of those who viol...