{"product_id":"coventry-9781604892215","title":"Coventry","description":"\u003cp\u003eFiction. First time in paperback. This novel, which won the Novello Literary Award in 2006, hits hard and doesn't stop hitting. Bathanti surely drew on his extensive experience teaching in prisons to create a scad of unforgettable and unforgiving characters in an equally unforgettable and unforgiving setting: a prison camp. Cal Gaddy is haunted by his father, a guard who took young Cal on hunts for escaped convicts, despite protests from Cal's religious mother. And then we have Thrake, the hardcore sergeant who much resembles Cal's father and who brooks no disciplinary problems from the prisoners--with the exception of the camp's voodoo man, Pitch, a contraband dealer who keeps Thrake fearful of his powers to curse and maim. A bonus: Bathanti's prose hits every bit as powerfully as his tale and his characters. Here is a novel to awake each reader to another, darker side of life. Bathanti surely drew on his extensive experience teaching in prisons to create this unforgettable and unforgiving setting: a prison camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBathanti, Joseph:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Bathanti is the author of ten books of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eCommunion Partners; Anson County; The Feast of All Saints; This Metal\u003c\/em\u003e (nominated for the National Book Award, and winner of the Oscar Arnold Young Award); \u003cem\u003eLand of Amnesia; Restoring Sacred Art\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the 2010 Roanoke-Chowan Award, given annually by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association for best book of poetry in a given year); \u003cem\u003eSonnets of the Cross; Concertina\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the 2014 Roanoke-Chowan Award); and \u003cem\u003eThe 13th Sunday after Pentecost, \u003c\/em\u003e released by LSU Press in 2016. His novel, \u003cem\u003eEast Liberty, \u003c\/em\u003e won the 2001 Carolina Novel Award. His novel, \u003cem\u003eCoventry, \u003c\/em\u003e won the 2006 Novello Literary Award. His book of stories, \u003cem\u003eThe High Heart, \u003c\/em\u003e won the 2006 Spokane Prize. \u003cem\u003eThey Changed the State: The Legacy of North Carolina's Visiting Artists, 1971- 1995, \u003c\/em\u003e his book of nonfiction, was published in early 2007.","brand":"Livingston Press at the University of West Al","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874403324178,"sku":"9781604892215","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4de24d92-fa63-41f4-8252-8c3459d5ce3c.jpg?v=1737992586","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/coventry-9781604892215","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}