O'Nan, Stewart , 1961-

A prayer for the dying : a novel / Stewart O'Nan - 1st ed - New York : Holt , 1999. - 195 p. ; 20 cm.

After the Civil War, an epidemic strikes a small Wisconsin town, leaving the man who serves as sheriff, pastor, and undertaker with huge burdens.

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Diphtheria----Fiction
Epidemics----Fiction
Bereavement----Fiction


United States---History---Civil war, 1861-1865----Fiction
Friendship (Wisc.)----Fiction


Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction
Domestic fiction
Horror tales

PS3565.N316 / P73 1999

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