The Boulevard

By Jerrod Edson,

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Known for his Saint John-based novels, Jerrod Edson enters the world of speculative literature with The Boulevard, an ambitious novel featuring Ernest Hemingway, Vincent van Gogh, Satan, and a train ride through Hell.


For the first time since Satan's banishment, God plans a visit to the lower world, and Satan…

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The Boulevard is a weird historical fiction in a supernatural frame. What’s not to like? 

Satan has presumptuously had Vincent Van Gogh brighten up the main street of his gloomy, corporeal Hell. God would definitely not approve.

So when God decides to pay the dark realm an unprecedented visit, Satan sadly realizes he’ll have to tear it all down. On a train ride to break the news to the reclusive artist, he regales drinking companion Ernest Hemingway with the history of how the project came about, including a well-researched and wonderfully shaped walk-through of Western art history.

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