books.google.com.au - From the first lines of A Handbook of American Prayer, award-winning author Lucius Shepard signals his place in the classic American tradition of confessional memoirists. While his plot is unique, his literary precedents include the great moral chroniclers of crime on the biblical scale.Wardlin Stuart...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/A_Handbook_of_American_Prayer.html?id=u3PmrNuLd00C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA Handbook of American Prayer