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Peter De Vries’s The Blood of the Lamb follows Don Wanderhop from his early years in a Calvinist immigrant family in Chicago during the 1950s to the painful grieving of successive losses—his brother, his faith, his wife, and ultimately his daughter. The narrative is drawn from De Vries’s own life, blending personal grief with the broader human experience of faith, illness, and mortality.
First publish date: 1961
Genre: Religious & Spiritual Fiction/Religious Fiction
Authors: Peter De Vries
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