Dayspring
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Dayspring

A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of biblical tales and an unforgettable contemporary coming-of-age story, connected in collapsing time across millennia. There are few love stories in the holy books. Love is what ruins. Love is what costs. Love is a flaming sword at our backs, a garden left to ruin and to wild. In Dayspring, Anthony Oliveira brings to vibrant, glorious life the gospel according to the disciple Christ loved—his companion in the days before the crucifixion, the only instrument that remembers with fidelity his sound. Sacred, profane, and rich with explicit desire and a poetic attention to form, Dayspring weaves electric and heart-wrenching stories of passion, grief, destruction, and survival into a narrative unmoored in space and time, one that re-examines and re-frames great and doomed figures from scripture and history, even as it casts its keen eye on the trials of modern life. Seamlessly blending fiction, memoir, and verse in the exhilarating tradition of Anne Carson and Madeline Miller, Dayspring is an immersive, mesmerizing work, one that wrenches beauty from cataclysm and finds bliss in apocalypse.
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cee @ceereading
5 stars
May 10, 2025
Vivid
Daring
Unique
Eloquent
Beautiful
Remarkable
Refreshing
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Unforgettable
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m.@marble
4 stars
Apr 16, 2025
Compelling
Conceptual
Thought provoking
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james cao@woofs
4 stars
Jan 5, 2025
Vivid
Tragic
Beautiful
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joa@ilybyoshimoto
5 stars
Nov 6, 2024
Inventive
Meaningful
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bella@bee9500
5 stars
May 23, 2024

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