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"The Blood of Paradise is suffused with a radiance
only rarely bestowed upon the incidents of ordinary life."
--New York Times
"A lucid, persuasive, self-aware work of pastoral
realism, centering on a thoroughly modern young family's
struggle to homestead, for aesthetic reasons, in Virginia's
Appalachian Mountains." --Village Voice
"A book that seems laden, rich, powerful. It tells a
complicated story without any attempts to analyze or
oversimplify, and the three characters at its center are so
profoundly alive that whatever room you're reading this in
will seem densely populated." --Ann Tyler in Washington Post
Book World
"Stephen Goodwin assembles his materials with grace and
precision, as if he were building a log mansion in a virgin
forest, and he traces most subtly the shifting hopes and
needs of the husband and wife, as four seasons give and take
life around them (both wild and domestic) at a rate that
seems wonderful and terrible by turns." --The New Yorker
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