Kent Wascom

• Jun-2013
• / Literary
• 

One of the most powerful and impressive debuts Grove/Atlantic has ever published, The Blood of Heaven is an epic novel about the American frontier in the early days of the nineteenth century. Its twenty-six-year-old author, Kent Wascom, was awarded t...

• Jul-2015
• / Literary
• 

From the immensely talented author of "The Blood of Heaven" comes a gothic portrait of a city ravaged by war and struck by vice and disease -- Civil War New Orleans. With his virtuosic, richly historical prose, Wascom carves a tale of insurrection an...

• Jul-2018
• / Historical
• 

Kent Wascom is one of the most exciting and ambitious emerging voices in American fiction. Envisaging a quartet of books telling the story of America through a single family and region, the Gulf Coast of the United States, Wascom began with his much-...

• May-2024
• / Literary
• 

From the beloved author previously compared to Cormac McCarthy and Joyce Carol Oates (Washington Post), a startling and unconventional neon-pink Western of vengeance, family, and first love as two warring factions vie for control of a blood-soaked Gu...