Novels
Gregory Blake Smith is the author of three novels, The Devil in the Dooryard, The Divine Comedy of John Venner, which was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times, and the recently released The Madonna of Las Vegas.
Select a title below for details about each novel.
The Madonna of Las Vegas
It's the hair-raising countdown to a new millenium, and Cosmo Dust watches in dismay as the wreckage of his life comes into garish focus in the phantasmagoric glow of post-Sinatra Las Vegas, a pastiche city where everything from Venice to the Brooklyn Bridge exists in facsimile.The Devil in the Dooryard
How do you live your life when nobody, neither God nor the devil, keeps accounts any longer? For John Wheelwright, descendant of the Indian-killer Isaac Wheelwright, the answer lies in adopting a seventeenth-century ghost and moving to an island in Boston harbor where he can keep his soul free of the pollution of twentieth-century America.The Divine Comedy of John Venner
John Venner is a thirty-five-year-old doctor of divinity bedeviled by lustful longing for the last virgin in America. For Venner, hurtling along the middle of life's road, the clean white sheets of heaven and the goatish delights of hell compete for his soul in a riotous struggle between the flesh and the spirit.
