Saints

"In the best tradition of enlivened history..."
-- Douglas D. Alder

"...a well-written popular epic on the level of Gone with the Wind…"
-- Reno Gazette Journal

"It's hard not to admire such a novel.... It's old-fashioned in tone and substance, but gracefully written and imaginative in execution."
-- Newsday

The Kirkham family has fallen on hard times in Manchester, England, during wrenching changes of the industrial revolution. The older children are forced to work to support the family, until a ray of hope appears -- strangers from America, preaching about building the city of God in the promised land.

Dinah and Charlie Kirkham choose to go, but the price they pay is far higher than they bargained for. When they make the sacrifice, they have no way of knowing just how much they will gain -- and how much they will lose.

When Orson Scott Card's historical epic Saints was first published in 1984, it had to overcome many obstacles: The original publisher changed the title, gave it an unfortunate cover, and published it as a paperback original, almost guaranteeing that it would disappear without a trace.

In spite of these obstacles, many readers discovered it and passed it from hand to hand. The novel has endured, building a community of loyal readers for more than twenty years. This edition marks its first appearance in hardcover, and includes a new afterword by the author, recounting the saga of the book's development and publication.

Lettered: 15 signed leatherbound copies, housed in a custom traycase
Limited: 111 signed numbered copies, bound in leather and cloth
Trade: fully cloth bound edition

For personalized copies, please order via Orson Scott Card's personal site: www.hatrack.com

From Publishers Weekly (starred review):
"Best known for his fantasy fiction (Ender's Game, etc.), Card does an excellent job of depicting the Dickensian horrors of England undergoing industrialization in the early 19th century as well as the early trials of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints as experienced by his heroine, Dinah Kirkham...Not just for the LDS faithful (the author is himself a Mormon), this ambitious novel will appeal to anyone interested in a sensitive examination of the roots of religious feeling."