Hunter James

The Harps of Hell Hunter James

THE LONG SLOW ROAD TO PERDITION The Harps of Hell is a tale of old fashioned Southern revivalism as our grandparents knew it. Dark flames of Hell shooting up about you even during the midst of a pleasant summer afternoon. Sleepless nights, days of terror. After long evenings in a sweaty church, most often at harvest time, many parishioners either go home "saved" or else plagued by guilt and thoughts of suicide as they seek to escape the distress brought on by angry interludes of violent singing and tortured sermonizing-all this as two closely related teenagers, boy and girl, separated since birth, harbor thoughts of an illicit romance even as they seek to come to terms with their own desperate feelings of uncertainty.