BY <\/span><\/span>JAMES WADE<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Categories: Literary Fiction \/ Crime Fiction<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Publisher: Blackstone Publishing<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Blackstone Facebook<\/a> Twitter<\/a> Instagram<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Date of Publication: October 11, 2022<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Number of Pages: 350 pages<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Beasts of the Earth<\/em> tells the story of Harlen LeBlanc, a dependable if quiet employee of the Carter Hills High School\u2019s grounds department, whose carefully maintained routine is overthrown by an act of violence. As the town searches for answers, LeBlanc strikes out on his own to exonerate a friend, while drawing the eyes of the law to himself and fending off unwelcome voices that call for a sterner form of justice.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Twenty years earlier, young Michael Fischer dreads the return of his father from prison. He spends his days stealing from trap lines in the Louisiana bayou to feed his fanatically religious mother and his cherished younger sister, Doreen. When his father eventually returns, an evil arrives in Michael\u2019s life that sends him running from everything he has ever known. He is rescued by a dying poet and his lover, who extract from him a promise: to be a good man, whatever that may require.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Beasts of the Earth <\/em>deftly intertwines these stories, exploring themes of time, fate, and free will, to produce a revelatory conclusion that is both beautiful and heartbreaking.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n PURCHASE LINKS:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u2551Blackstone Publishing<\/a> \u2551 Amazon<\/a> \u2551Bookshop.org<\/a>\u2551<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Add to your Goodreads Shelf<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n James Wade lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country with his wife and daughter. He is also the author of River, Sing Out<\/em> and All Things Left Wild,<\/em> a winner of the prestigious MPIBA Reading the West Award for Debut Fiction, and a recipient of the Spur Award for Best Historical Novel from the Western Writers of America.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u25c6 WEBSITE<\/a> \u25c6 BLOG<\/a> \u25c6 FACEBOOK <\/a>\u25c6<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u25c6 YOUTUBE<\/a> \u25c6 GOODREADS<\/a> \u25c6<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u25c6 INSTAGRAM<\/a>\u25c6 TWITTER<\/a> \u25c6<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Giveaway ended October 21, 2022<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Click the blogs for direct links to book reviews.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/field\/image\/bote_cover.jpg\")
ABOUT THE BOOK: <\/strong>James Wade, whose first two novels were praised as \u201crhapsodic\u201d and \u201chaunting,\u201d delivers his most powerful work to date\u2014a chilling parable about the impossible demands of hate and love, trauma and goodness, vividly set in the landscapes of Texas and Louisiana.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/field\/image\/beasts_of_the_earth_2.jpg\")
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