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Book Review of A Prayer for the Dying

A Prayer for the Dying
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Helpful Score: 8


I loved this, but I'm a sucker for a book with a well-done unreliable narrator, and in this novel of the plague, O'Nan pulls off one heck of an unreliable narrator.

Was he unhinged to begin with, or do circumstances do him in?

That would be a great discussion topic for a book club, especially because as I passed this book among friends, it elicted strong emotions and reactions. Some loved it as I did, some hated it, but ALL were touched by it.

A must-read.