The Blood of the Lamb

Boston/Toronto: Little, Brown and Company. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1961). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight clean copy with no discernible wear; the jacket is lightly browned at the spine, with the teensiest bit of wear at the extremities]. "Put simply, [this novel] is the story of someone who loses his faith as a child when his brother dies, and tries to recover it in manhood when his daughter is threatened. Religion and human meaning recur as basic themes, in scenes wildly comic and deeply moving by turns. Faced with certain paternal sorrow, the hero tries to reverse the entire course of his life in a search for his lost belief." An atypical work by this author, better known for more light-hearted and satirical books and plays, it was inspired by the death of his 10-year-old daughter after a two-year bout with leukemia. .