Make My Bed In Hell

<b>The prose is fresh and energetic the story-telling superb and the writing comes out as raw and terrifying as an exposed nerve. <i>New York Times</i></b><p><p>Aaron Platt has spent every day of his life breaking his back to scrape a living from the rocky played-out fields of the Adirondack farm he inherited from his sadistic father. One winter morning he follows footprints in the snow to his barn and discovers a man freezing to death in a horse stall. What unfolds between the two men past and present is a brisk gritty depiction of crime and punishment. But their harrowing story is more than that exposing the shocking hypocrisy of the people who live in the nearby bucolic town-a legacy of hatred that reaches back to the violent founding of the nation.<p>This literary masterpiece back in print for the first time in over 60 years includes a new Afterword by Jack Mearns author of <i>John Sanford: An Annotated Bibliography</i><p>A first-rate story of violence and congealed hate. <i>New Republic</i><p>The story is electrifying. <i>Saturday Review of Literature</i><p>A brief fast book and those pages are terse. Sanford has injected the drama of spilled blood that made America. <i>Los Angeles Times </i><p>An unusual book with some brilliant pieces of writing exceeding Celine and Faulkner in depravity and language. <i>Kirkus Reviews</i><p>