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Product Details

  • Paperback: 216 pages
  • Publisher: Bleak House, Diversity (July 15, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1932557040
  • ISBN-13: 978-1932557046
  • Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 0.5 x 8.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #198,470 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsA chance worth taking
By B. Tyree on December 29, 2004
Format: Paperback
"A Prayer for Dawn" is a novel that takes chances, and luckily for Singer, they pay off. Some may view it as over-the-top, brash, or too non-PC, but that seems to be what he's going for. We live in an over-the-top world, and he takes full advantage of putting this on display.

On my first read, I noticed that many of his characters were similar. It was a bit bothersome, but upon another read, it was clearly intentional. They were meant to overlap, perhaps to show us that the lonely, fat, homosexual teenager is no different from the greedy, guilt-ridden middle-aged woman, or the poverty-stricken black man. It's equality at its finest. But even in their similarities, there are striking differences. The problem I have with most authors is that when they write for a character who is another gender, age, or sexual orientation, they pull it off terribly. Singer's portrayal of a quickly maturing 8 year old girl was convincing... not an easy task. Every character had unique quirks that made them believeable, no matter how outlandish they acted.

I applaud Singer for bringing things that disturb us to the forefront. Not only does he show us these unmentionables, but he forces us to look at them, holds our eyes open and yells "THIS IS WHAT REALLY HAPPENS!" Some of the scenes are gruesome and hard to stomach, but again, that's the world we live in. One realization I had about these scenes is that the artwork that causes the characters to vomit is different in each reader's mind. It lets our most feared thoughts come into view.

This is an immensely good and I'd recommend it to anyone with an open mind. I haven't seen so much potential in a first novel in quite some time, and I look forward to more from a new talent.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA ballsy side-step for the novellic form
By Amazon Customer on July 26, 2004
Format: Paperback
"A Prayer For Dawn" is at once familiar and utterly new. In it you will see William S. Burroughs, Chuck Palahniuk, Jonathan Swift, that punk kid on your message boards you can't stand, your dirty unwashed uncle that that dragged away in handcuffs last month, and three quarters of the actual city of Cincinnati, Ohio. But though there is so much familiar about this novel, the form, the execution, and the sheer fury of it are something utterly new. Mixing first-person narrative, third-person omniscient, newspaper columns, slam poetry, and unchecked rebellion against anything that represents the status quo, Nathan Singer invents an art form all his own.

But style is only a fraction of the appeal of this book. "A Prayer For Dawn" is, to put it simply, one of the best novels I've read in years. I devoured the book in two days because I could not put it down. It was responsible for making me late getting back from my lunch break. I tried to stealthily read it while at work, but was stymied by the fact that every page made me either laugh uproariously, throw something against the wall, or cry. "Dawn" is crass, terrifying, unpatriotic, blasphemous, pornographic, possibly treasonous, and filled with bad grammar. It's also lyrical, truthful, stirring, hilarious, and bleakly optimistic. Singer knows people. He knows how they talk, how they act, what their darkest secrets are, and what lies under the patina of filth that the rest of the world sees. He knows their hearts and their motives and their conflicts. And he knows how to make them come alive on the page in a way that no other author has.

You need this book.

Now.
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5.0 out of 5 starsNathan Singer is a gifted "Original"
By Tom on August 26, 2004
Format: Paperback
Nathan Singer is an actor, playwright, musician and fiction author. He is a true original. If you like to mix your anger with hope and your short-comings with redemption - Singer is the writer for you.
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5.0 out of 5 starsfantastic
By embley on October 4, 2004
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this book was amazing. you must read it right now. everyone you know must read it. don't do one single thing more before reading this book.
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