The most poignant of all De Vries's novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also the most autobiographical. It follows the life of Don Wanderhop from his childhood in an immigrant Calvinist family living in Chicago in the 1950s through the loss of a brother, his faith, his wife,...
Ingenuity, lyricism, tenderness, and humor all merge in this autobiographical account of a life marked, yet by no means crushed, by tragedy as the story of the narrator unfolds from his Calvinist upbringing in Chicago to the successive losses of his brother, his first love, his...