The Blood of the Lamb | The Blood of the Lamb

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Author: Peter De Vries
First Published: 1962
Type of Plot: Comic realism
Time of Work: 1920’s-1950’s
Setting: Chicago and New York City
Principal Characters: Don Wanderhope, Ben Wanderhope, Louie Wanderhope, Greta Wigbaldy, Carol, Rena Baker
Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
Subjects: 1950’s, Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Parents and children, New York City, 1940’s, Religion, 1920’s, 1930’s, Chicago, Immigration or emigration, Fathers, Calvinism, Hospices, Leukemia, Rocky Mountains, Tuberculosis
Locales: New York, NY, Chicago, IL, Rocky Mountains

Peter De Vries’s The Blood of the Lamb is a deeply religious novel, although the religious sensibility is often expressed in unconventional ways: through the comic, the grotesque, the mundane, and the tragic. The novel’s protagonist, Don Wanderhope, whose name suggests a religious quest, grows up in a strict Dutch Calvinist immigrant family in Chicago and later tries to escape from the confines of his immigrant background and become more fully Americanized. Yet he finds his aspirations to the good life thwarted by a series of unhappy circumstances as...

The Blood of the Lamb | The Blood of the Lamb

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