Honey from the Lion, by Matthew Neill Null
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In this lyrical and suspenseful debut novel, a turn-of-the-century logging company decimates ten thousand acres of virgin forest in the West Virginia Alleghenies and transforms a brotherhood of timber wolves into revolutionaries. After fleeing his childhood farm in the wake of scandal, Cur Greathouse arrives at the Cheat River Paper & Pulp Company’s Blackpine camp, where an unlikely family of sawyers offers him new hope. But the work there is exacting and dangerous with men’s worth measured in ledger columns. Whispers of a union strike pass from bunk to bunk. Against the rasp of the misery whip and the crash of felled hemlock and red spruce, Cur encounters a cast of characters who will challenge his loyalties: a minister grasping after his dwindling congregation, a Syrian peddler who longs to put down his pack and open a store, a slighted Slovenian wife turned activist, and a trio of reckless land barons. Cur must accept or betray the call to lead a rebellion and finally reconcile a forbidden love. Manuel Muñoz says of reading Matthew Neill Null’s image-rich prose, “The real pleasure and certainly not the only one is in the sentences, as complex, deliberately assured, and lethal as Flannery O’Connor’s. A startling elegy that establishes its author as a tremendous new literary voice, Honey from the Lion evokes the ecological devastation and human tragedy behind the Gilded Age, and sings both the land and ordinary lives in all their extraordinary resilience.”
Honey from the Lion, by Matthew Neill Null- Amazon Sales Rank: #120922 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.40" h x .80" w x 5.40" l, .80 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 264 pages
Review Honey from the Lion is provocative in its exploration of transgression and redemption and exhilarating in its lyric evocations of this rugged American landscape. Matthew Neill Null establishes himself as a perceptive seer of haunted souls and as an astonishing stylist. Honey from the Lion is a debut to celebrate.” --Laura van den Berg, author of The Isle of Youth and Find Me“In one of the most assured debuts of the year, Matthew Neill Null tells the story of an American tragedy that began when Union soldiers from wealthy Eastern families first saw West Virginia’s thousands of acres of nearly impenetrable virgin forest. Honey from the Lion brings to mind the literature-as-history triumphs of E. L. Doctorow and Denis Johnson, yet Null is specific unto himself. His compressed, lyrical prose penetrates every darkness and wheels through time like a soaring bird.” --Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Quiet Dell and Lark and Termite“Rich in history, speech, incident, flora, fauna, vernacular, geology, politics, Matthew Neill Null’s work is dazzling. It’s hard to believe this is fiction and not the firsthand account of the spirit of a place and time long past. He seems to know every shrub and burrow, how it formed, who owned it from the first European settlement and before. If anything ever happened in the state of West Virginia, Null knows the long and short of it, and will make its story sing.” --Salvatore Scibona, author of The End“Beautiful prose, vivid characterization, and meticulous research make Honey from the Lion an exceptional debut. Matthew Neill Null is a gifted and serious writer we need to pay attention to.” --Ron Rash, author of Serena“Eclectic and fearless in his mix of old and new; guttural and lyrical by turns, or often both at the same time; brilliant at conjuring voices of every stripe and type, ethnic provenance, social class, and gender, in a West Virginia boomtown 125 years ago; knowing in many domains in fact a dazzling polymath with the lexicons of geology, hunting, popular religion, immigrant history, and frontier economics at his disposal Matthew Neill Null is bound to become one of the most admired and influential fiction writers of his generation. He is the only writer I know besides Edward P. Jones in The Known World who has the chops to represent the American past in a way that is richly credible for its period and yet stylistically daring.””--Jaimy Gordon, author of Lord of Misrule“Matthew Neill Null recreates a time and place in our nation’s history in which the trajectory of progress seemed limitless and the wilderness and its resources inexhaustible. With exquisitely wrought characters, including the land itself, he takes us into the souls of the unremembered underdogs whose lives were ultimately the price of that progress. In this powerful novel, Null gives us a starkly vivid American story that is, at its dark heart, nothing less than the story of America.””--Lydia Peelle, author of Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing““The timber boom of the early twentieth century logged out the great virgin spruce forests of West Virginia. The devastation was complete. No tree escaped the saw. From mountaintops the once green land looked like ‘a mutilated sea.’ Matthew Neill Null elegantly and eloquently addresses this ecological tragedy and its attendant human diminishment in this thoughtful and moving novel.”” --Joy Williams, author of The Quick and the Dead“Honey from the Lion is a master performance. Industry, capital, religion, class, race, and unionization are all rendered through the fully realized loggers, vigilantes, industrialists, and preachers that he conjures so utterly and empathetically. You will be awed and emptied by this book, and the truth and humanity within it. Honey from the Lion isn’’t just beautiful it’s important. Read it now.””--Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek“Matthew Neill Null writes with great originality about a place, West Virginia, that his singular vision has made universal. He illuminates the mercenary side of American history its rapacity and greed and also the resistance and protest that this novel itself so eloquently represents.””--Zachary Lazar, author of I Pity the Poor Immigrant““Honey from the Lion is a magisterial achievement, suffused with the Faulknerian values of love, honor, pity, pride, compassion, and sacrifice, concerning nothing less than the cohesion of an American civilization. Matthew Null is a brilliant writer and his first novel is a gift.”” --Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
From the Inside Flap In this lyrical and suspenseful debut novel, a turn-of-the-century logging company decimates ten thousand acres of virgin forest in the West Virginia Alleghenies and transforms a brotherhood of timber wolves into revolutionaries.
After fleeing his childhood farm in the wake of scandal, Cur Greathouse arrives at the Cheat River Paper & Pulp Company's Blackpine camp, where an unlikely family of sawyers offers him new hope. But the work there is exacting and dangerous with men's worth measured in ledger columns. Whispers of a union strike pass from bunk to bunk. Against the rasp of the misery whip and the crash of felled hemlock and red spruce, Cur encounters a cast of characters who will challenge his loyalties: a minister grasping after his dwindling congregation, a Syrian peddler who longs to put down his pack and open a store, a slighted Slovenian wife turned activist, and a trio of reckless land barons. Cur must accept or betray the call to lead a rebellion and finally reconcile a forbidden love.
Manuel Mu oz says of reading Matthew Neill Null's image-rich prose, "The real pleasure and certainly not the only one is in the sentences, as complex, deliberately assured, and lethal as Flannery O'Connor's." A startling elegy that establishes its author as a tremendous new literary voice, Honey from the Lion evokes the ecological devastation and human tragedy behind the Gilded Age, and sings both the land and ordinary lives in all their extraordinary resilience.
About the Author Matthew Neill Null a recipient of the Mary McCarthy Prize and the Michener Copernicus Society of America Award, and his fiction appears in American Short Fiction, Ecotone, the Oxford American, Ploughshares, The PEN /O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Best American Mystery Stories. A native of West Virginia, he holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he is currently the writing coordinator. This is his first novel.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Brilliant Historical Novel, Beautifully Written and Perfectly Paced By Ulysses616 This novel has everything a literary novel should have: finely drawn characters, gorgeous language, vivid evocation of setting, and--gasp!--a plot. It is filled with tension and mystery in the best non-pulpy sort of way. I'm especially astonished by how credibly the young author brings to life an era that preceded him by many decades--the West Virginia of 1904 (and, through flashbacks, as early as the American Civil War) is as richly alive as the most of-the-moment fiction out there. With its refreshingly modern look at bygone times, the bold omniscience of its POV strategy, its characters' eccentric names (Cur Greathouse and Asa Neversummer are a couple of great ones), and the author's harpoon-sharp language, which manages to be lyrical and brutal at once, the book resembles in some respects a novel like William H. Gass's Omensetter's Luck, though it never succumbs to the occasional bagginess and obscurity that characterize parts of Gass's otherwise brilliant novel. It also reminded me at times of Denis Johnson's work in Train Dreams and Edward P. Jones' fiction, which also roves all over time, hop-scotching from one character's point of view to another's to achieve a brimming sense of a fully inhabited society. Even if those comparisons mean little to you, read this novel. It's one of the best I've read in a good long minute.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Moving and Important! By Ron Weissbard This book constantly wows you with a thrilling plot, complex characters and beautiful description. The writing is direct, poignant, resonant, as crisp as the mountain air it evokes. A powerful and gripping story of environmental destruction and the laborers during the early union movement that is all too relevant today. By focusing on the workers, their relationships, desires, struggles, Null paints an incredible picture of the times, the rich lives that are washed away in the current of capitalist "progress", the toll of which is the efficient and brutally mechanical exploitation of both nature and the individual.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Highly recommended By Beth This is a magnificent book, which is remarkable since it is apparently a debut novel. Honey from the Lion educates us about the impact of the logging and railroad industries on the people and ecology of West Virginia in the early twentieth century. Who knew that in the WV mountains,130 years ago, there were vast tracts of massive 800-year-old trees to rival the Sequoias? -- all ultimately logged to feed the coffers of out-of-state logging company executives. This ecological disaster, along with the beginnings of union organizing (with plenty of violence and messiness), forms the historical backdrop for the narrative.The characters, mostly logging laborers, are for the most part, rough, coarse and even brutal. Without sentimentality, Null paints their underlying humanity in all its sweetness and awfulness.The history and character development would be enough to make this book worth reading –but then there is the beautiful writing, which often enters that zone between prose and poetry. The imagery and metaphors play like music and fly by before you can take them all in. This is not a book you can read without paying attention.
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