All the World Beside - A Novel

“A heart-wrenching story of love, family, and spirituality.” -- From the Cana, Massachusetts: a utopian vision of 18th-century Puritan New England. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World into their fold. One such Christian, physician Arthur Lyman, discovers in the minister’s words a love so captivating it transcends language. As the bond between these two men grows more and more passionate, their families must contend with a tangled web of secrets, lies, and judgments which threaten to destroy them in this world and the next. And when the religious ecstasies of the Great Awakening begin to take hold, igniting a new era of zealotry, Nathaniel and Arthur search for a path out of an impossible situation, imagining a future for themselves which has no name. Their wives and children must do the same, looking beyond the known world for a new kind of wilderness, both physical and spiritual. Set during the turbulent historical upheavals which shaped America’s destiny and following in the tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s

Product details

• Authors: Garrard Conley
• Publisher: Riverhead
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2025
• EAN: 9780525537342
• ISBN: 978-0-525-53734-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 201 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > English; Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Relating to LGBTQIA+ people