The Angels Came to Sodom in the Evening

The Angels Came to Sodom in the Evening - Paperback

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The Angels Came to Sodom in the Evening - Paperback

The Angels Came to Sodom in the Evening - Paperback

by Paul Russell
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by Paul Russell (Author)

"Fearless. In prose that is lush and unflinching, it explores the entanglement of desire and shame, power and cruelty, biblical landscapes and the American South." -- Chloe Benjamin

A masterful return from one of the
greats of contemporary American fiction.In 1970s Memphis, two boys lock in battle.
They're best friends, but when your body floods with longing, sometimes all you
can do is fight. Then one summer, at a Christian camp, Rory Singleton meets a
fellow teenager who shows him the wonders of dragonflies and sex-- episodes of
stolen pleasure that awaken a hunger he'll spend a lifetime trying to bury.As an adult, Rory is the pastor of a
thriving megachurch, his life built on secrets, careful silences, and furtive
encounters. But when he's sent to Africa to promote a homophobic crusade, the
contradictions become unbearable. A reckoning begins--one that will take him
from the pulpit to underground queer spaces, from respectability to radical
honesty, from denial to a raw, dangerous freedom, and finally to a
confrontation with everything he's built and everyone he's betrayed.

From the author of the award-winning The
Coming Storm comes a searing novel in the tradition of James Baldwin
and Flannery O'Connor--a devastating portrait of American evangelicalism's war
on desire, and one man's fight to reclaim the pleasure and truth he's been
denied.
Number of Pages: 374
Dimensions: 0.77 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN
Publication Date: October 06, 2026
ISBN9781917352161
Author Paul Russell
PublisherBarbican Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages374
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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