{"product_id":"honey-from-the-lion-9781940596082","title":"Honey from the Lion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter fleeing his childhood farm in the wake of scandal, Cur Greathouse arrives at the Cheat River Paper \u0026amp; Pulp Company's Blackpine camp, where an unlikely family of sawyers offers him new hope. But the work there is exacting and dangerous--with men'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eManuel Mu oz says of reading Matthew Neill Null's image-rich prose, \"The real pleasure--and certainly not the only one--is in the sentences, as complex, deliberately assured, and lethal as Flannery O'Connor's.\" A startling elegy that establishes its author as a tremendous new literary voice, \u003cem\u003eHoney from the Lion\u003c\/em\u003e evokes the ecological devastation and human tragedy behind the Gilded Age, and sings both the land and ordinary lives in all their extraordinary resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Neill Null is a recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Mary McCarthy Prize, and the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award. His stories appear in \u003cem\u003e American Short Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Ecotone\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003e Oxford American\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Ploughshares\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e The PEN \/O. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003e The Best American Mystery Stories 2014\u003c\/em\u003e. A native of West Virginia, he holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His novel, \u003cem\u003e Honey from the Lion\u003c\/em\u003e (Lookout, 2015), was short listed for the L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize, and his story collection, \u003cem\u003e Allegheny Front\u003c\/em\u003e (Sarabande, 2016), was named a finalist for \u003cem\u003e Foreword\u003c\/em\u003e's INDIE collection of the year.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lookout Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50365840949522,"sku":"9781940596082","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f37fdbdd-8e8a-49d3-ae03-2f2b03bc4d1f.jpg?v=1728464776","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/honey-from-the-lion-9781940596082","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}