Kent Wascom
A native of the Gulf south, Kent Wascom attended Louisiana State University and received an MFA from Florida State University. He was awarded the 2012 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for Fiction. The Blood of Heaven is his first novel.
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A native of the Gulf south, Kent Wascom attended Louisiana State University and received an MFA from Florida State University. He was awarded the 2012 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for Fiction. The Blood of Heaven is his first novel.
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Kent Wascom's Books
3.5/5 starsIt's not that the book wasn't well-written (it was) or deal with subject matter that I found interesting (life during the Union Army occupation of New Orleans during the Civil War).It wasn't that the author's prose wasn't brilliant (it was).It's the number of times I considered abandoning...
Kent Wascom's aptly named debut novel, The Blood of Heaven comes with a ton on accolades from the publishing world, as well as large numbers of reviews singing it's praises. It has been called "a startling debut" and Kent Wascom an author with "the kind of talent rarely seen in any novelist". The ...
Blogged at River City Reading:Kent Wascom's debut novel traces the life of Angel Woolsack, who leaves his preacher father and the plains of Missouri to create a new life with his adopted brother, Samuel Kemper, in the early 1800's. The pair navigates their way through the South, loosening their mora...
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