Cain’s Version: A Novel (Turner Publishing) will be available Oct. 15, 2008
This sweeping first novel by Frank Durham skillfully interweaves the story of the Bible’s first family with the lives of a community today. The beautiful prose will be especially prized by readers with a sophisticated appreciation of a literary style.
Unlike the recently popular subgenre of literature that considers little known females’ lives’ in the Bible, such as The Red Tent and Sarah: A Novel, this piece of literature delves into the lives of very well-known and documented Old Testament figures including Eve, Cain and Abel. The novel explores Cain’s perspective through all of history. The narrative incorporates the stories of a modern woman, Lindy Caton, middle-aged, attractive and recently divorced who is a not-for-profit executive, three strange poor old women, and an unusual little boy with a single mother – all whom become entangled with Cain. The unlikely relationships that develop have cataclysmic repercussions for all.
To say that Durham’s first work of fiction is ambitious is an understatement. This is a book to recommend for the difficult to satisfy intellectual customer.
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