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The Blood of the Lamb

Peter De Vries

Paperback | Pages: 248 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 1168 Users | 145 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Blood of the Lamb
ISBN:	0226143880 (ISBN13: 9780226143880)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Michigan(United States)

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The most poignant of all De Vries's novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also the most autobiographical. It follows the life of Don Wanderhop from his childhood in an immigrant Calvinist family living in Chicago in the 1950s through the loss of a brother, his faith, his wife, and finally his daughter-a tragedy drawn directly from De Vries's own life. Despite its foundation in misfortune, The Blood of the Lamb offers glimpses of the comic sensibility for which De Vries was famous. Engaging directly with the reader in a manner that buttresses the personal intimacy of the story, De Vries writes with a powerful blend of grief, love, wit, and fury.

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Title	:	The Blood of the Lamb
Author	:	Peter De Vries
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 248 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2005 by University of Chicago Press (first published January 1st 1961)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Young Adult. Novels

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Ratings: 4.01 From 1168 Users | 145 Reviews

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This is my new favorite author. Not capital F favorite, like DFW or James Ellroy, but my new, oh my god how could someone this good be so obscure and have almost all of his books be out of print, good. Kingsley Amis called him the funniest author on either side of the Atlantic, which is a pretty big compliment, since at the time Amis senior might have wanted to consider himself the holder of that title. And Amis is not wrong, De Vries is funny. There is a bit of the funniness that one would

This was a book I started to read at the end of the last school year in June and had a really difficult time with because of the very personal nature of the subject matter. (The forward by Jeffrey Frank gets into this quite a bit, speaking about how De Vries was usually known for writing more comedic novels and how this is perhaps the closest he got to autobiography with his own life's tragedies.But, to be fair, this book is really more balanced than I thought it would be. Most of the book

After reading this a great long time ago, I told my husband, "This author had to have experienced this first-hand." These were the days before the Internet, so I had to do a little research, and sure enough, I guessed right. It manages to simultaneously amuse, disturb you and ultimately break your heart.

Peter DeVries was a very popular writer who contributed many stories to the New Yorker in the fifties and sixties and who wrote several very funny novels. This autobiographical novel describes the growth to maturity of Don Wanderhope, member of a strictly Calvinist Dutch Reform family, whose brother becomes a heretic, whose father becomes addicted to drink and goes insane, and whose wife commits suicide after giving him a child whom he loves deeply. At age eleven, his daughter contracts

I have a confession to make: I was raised as a Dutch Christian Reformed boy (DeVries uses Dutch Calvinist as shorthand for his many fans NOT in his tradition) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, graduated from the (Dutch Calvinist) Calvin College (associated with the Christian Reformed Church), gradually extricated myself from the tradition, leaving the church at last when I was 28, and at 61 had never read the most celebrated and famous Calvin College author's greatest book. I think most people who know

this is a stunning book by a stunning writer -- he has total command of language, is hilarious and profound, and capable of great emotional depth -- this is the second de vries novel I've read and I will read more -- the only minor thing I didn't like about this was that towards its very brutal/tragic/sad ending it got a little too explicit in its religious questions for my particular taste -- but everything he says is insightful and profound and challenging ... de vries is a must read for

This is a marvelous read. The mirthful first half, however, fails to balance against the devastatingly heartfelt second half. De Vries's writes so well from his soul it is as if you are inside him and suffer with him. Fanny Butcher of the Chicago Tribune comments on the back cover are so true: "The last half [of The Blood of the Lamb] is an emotional experience so rare in books, in its sincerity and its tender, almost breathless sharing of an author's heartbeats, that it should not be missed."