A brave and profoundly moving novel of faith and forgiveness.
LAMB BRIGHT SAVIORS
Robert Vivian
A Bison Original
“Flyover Fiction Series”
University of Nebraska Press
$22.95 Trade Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-8032-1380-7
On sale March, 2010
Fiction set on the Great Plains - the second volume in the Tall Grass Trilogy, following THE MOVER OF BONES
“Vivian is a latter-day Faulkner set loose with no editorial restraints, so there is no need to suspend your disbelief for this story. You can only go along for the brilliantly written ride, full of sound and fury that signifies little but moves us intensely.”
– Publishers Weekly“Even when writing about violence, Vivian’s prose glows with an internal light that creates a continual sense of wonder. With its multiple voices and keen sense of place, Lamb Bright Saviors takes those qualities that so defined a writer such as Faulkner and makes them new for a changed world.”—Sue William Silverman, author of Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You
“A brave and profoundly moving novel of faith and forgiveness. A closely observed novel of voices, it speaks the tongues of America’s impoverished underbelly and reveals, amid the squalor, mystery, goodness, and salvation.”—Douglas Glover, author of Elle and The Life and Times of Captain N.
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Other books by Robert Vivian:
THE MOVER OF BONES, Volume 1 in the Tall Grass Trilogy, 2006, $23.95 Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-8032-4679-9
COLD SNAP AS YEARNING, 2005, $13.95 Paperback , ISBN 978-0-8032-9623-7
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ABOUT THE BOOK
“Vivian is a master of the delicately constructed narrative. . . . Lamb Bright Saviors explores the relationship of the torments of the present to the mistakes of the past, laying bare the strange twists and turns of our human and inhuman inner lives.”—Brian Evenson, author of Altmann’s Tongue and The Open Curtain
“Robert Vivian’s prose is lyrical and harrowing—harrowing in the Biblical sense,” Sven Birkerts said of The Mover of Bones, the first book in Vivian’s Tall Grass Trilogy. That same lyrical power carries this new volume to a place of hard-won hope and redemption at once both spiritual and earthly.
Lamb Bright Saviors begins as an apocalyptically inclined itinerant preacher staggers across the Nebraska prairie. With his young assistant, Mady, in tow hauling a wagon stacked with bibles, it’s not long before the preacher finds he’s come to the final fulfillment of his self-proclaimed life’s work: to die in front of a group of strangers. Odd as his own end-of-days might be, the lives and struggles of the strangers attending this deathbed scene are even odder. As the dying preacher unleashes a barrage of hallucinatory ramblings and rantings in the hope of imparting wisdom, each ragtag member of this unlikely congregation must reckon with his own dark past. And through it all, the irrepressible Mady lends the preacher’s strange performance a surprising and unforgettable dignity and humor.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert Vivian is a professor of English and creative writing at Alma College in Michigan and also teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is the author of Cold Snap as Yearning, available in a Bison Books edition, and The Mover of Bones (Nebraska 2006).
