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Book Review of Lost Nation

Lost Nation
Lost Nation
Author: Jeffrey Lent
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Substores
Book Type: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 1


The book opens as Blood and the teenage prostitute Sally, who he won in a card game, travel to the back-est of back-woods in northern New Hampshire. So far north no one really knows if it's still America or if it's Canada.

Author Jeffrey Lent doesn't flinch from the nastier elements of Blood's character while slowly developing the bond of respect and eventually care that grows between him and Sally.

Gritty, realistic, passionate, stark, evocative, unflinching, this is Lent's masterpiece.