The Fire Gospels by Mike Magnuson eBook
The Fire Gospels takes place in the McCutcheon River Valley during a long-standing drought. Through characters like Grady McCann, a hardworking maintenance man at an old folks’ home; his wife, Erica, a strangely evangelical Catholic; and Lucky Littlefield, the local weatherman turned preacher who enjoins his viewers to “pray for rain” at the beginning of each broadcast, The Fire Gospels tells in vivid detail the story of the draught and how the townspeople are seduced into believing that Lucky will pull them through their time of struggle.
This digital download includes a .epub file
The Fire Gospels takes place in the McCutcheon River Valley during a long-standing drought. Through characters like Grady McCann, a hardworking maintenance man at an old folks’ home; his wife, Erica, a strangely evangelical Catholic; and Lucky Littlefield, the local weatherman turned preacher who enjoins his viewers to “pray for rain” at the beginning of each broadcast, The Fire Gospels tells in vivid detail the story of the draught and how the townspeople are seduced into believing that Lucky will pull them through their time of struggle.
This digital download includes a .epub file
The Fire Gospels takes place in the McCutcheon River Valley during a long-standing drought. Through characters like Grady McCann, a hardworking maintenance man at an old folks’ home; his wife, Erica, a strangely evangelical Catholic; and Lucky Littlefield, the local weatherman turned preacher who enjoins his viewers to “pray for rain” at the beginning of each broadcast, The Fire Gospels tells in vivid detail the story of the draught and how the townspeople are seduced into believing that Lucky will pull them through their time of struggle.
This digital download includes a .epub file
PRAISE
“Mike Magnuson hits the first page running, a torch in either hand, and by the time he has burned on through to the other side, he has left a story that is beautiful and terrible and one that lingers in the mind and heart. This is my kind of story.” – Harry Crews
“Comic, violent, profane, and apocalyptic, The Fire Gospels explodes on the page. Read it for its energy and Wisconsin-gothic characters; read it most of all for the rock and roll and jolt of its language, its seamless nightmare vision and dark song.” – Andrea Barrett
“The Fire Gospels is a prodigally ambitious novel…a fable with a Flannery O’Connor-esque more: Be good, be true, and beware the great flamemaker in the sky.” – Esquire
“The Fire Gospels has a fast-paced plot that rips across these characters as the fire does the land.” - New York Times Book Review.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mike Magnuson is the author of two novels, The Right Man for the Job and The Fire Gospels; two memoirs, Lummox: The Evolution of a Man and Heft on Wheels: A Field Guide to Doing a 180; and book of cycling humor, Bike Tribes: A Field Guide to North American Cyclists. His stories and essays have appeared in Salon, Esquire, Gentleman’s Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, Men’s Health, Bicycling, Backpacker, Popular Mechanics, The Big Smoke, Best American Sports Writing, and other publications. Mike lives on the north shore of Lake Winnebago, in Menasha, Wisconsin, where he is finishing on two long books and playing drums professionally. He teaches in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at Pacific University.
