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Buechner analyzes the works of four of his favorite (and most influential) writers, Mark Twain, G. K. Chesterton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Shakespeare. These four writers, he says, each wrote at least once “in his own blood about the darkness of life as he found it and about how for better or for worse he managed to survive it, even to embrace it.” Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Chesterton’s Man Who Was Thursday, Hopkins last few sonnets, and Shakespeare’s King Lear—“in listening to these four say so powerfully not what they thought they ought to say but what they truly felt,” will allow us, Buechner believes, to learn to bear the weight of our own grief and sadness.

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[Reverberates] with particular poignancy...speak[s] honestly and eloquently. -- Presbyterian Outlook

[Reverberates] with particular poignancy...speak[s] honestly and eloquently. --Presbyterian Outlook I look to Frederick Buechner as a mentor in literature and faith, and this book marvelously combines both. --Philip Yancey, author of What's So Amazing About Grace A hauntingly terrifying and beautiful book about the depths of human existence. --Dallas Willard, author of The Divine Conspiracy Serves to illuminate a path through the ambiguities and complexities of human life. --Arkansas Democrat-Gazette A hauntingly terrifying and beautiful book about the depths of human existence. --Dallas Willard, author of The Divine Conspiracy [Reverberates] with particular poignancy...speak[s] honestly and eloquently. --Presbyterian Outlook I look to Frederick Buechner as a mentor in literature and faith, and this book marvelously combines both. --Philip Yancey, author of What's So Amazing About Grace Serves to illuminate a path through the ambiguities and complexities of human life. --Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

I look to Frederick Buechner as a mentor in literature and faith, and this book marvelously combines both. --Philip Yancey, author of What's So Amazing About Grace A hauntingly terrifying and beautiful book about the depths of human existence. --Dallas Willard, author of The Divine Conspiracy [Reverberates] with particular poignancy...speak[s] honestly and eloquently. --Presbyterian Outlook Serves to illuminate a path through the ambiguities and complexities of human life. --Arkansas Democrat-Gazette I look to Frederick Buechner as a mentor in literature and faith, and this book marvelously combines both. --Philip Yancey, author of What's So Amazing About Grace A hauntingly terrifying and beautiful book about the depths of human existence. --Dallas Willard, author of The Divine Conspiracy Serves to illuminate a path through the ambiguities and complexities of human life. --Arkansas Democrat-Gazette [Reverberates] with particular poignancy...speak[s] honestly and eloquently. --Presbyterian Outlook

A hauntingly terrifying and beautiful book about the depths of human existence. --Dallas Willard, author of The Divine Conspiracy I look to Frederick Buechner as a mentor in literature and faith, and this book marvelously combines both. --Philip Yancey, author of What's So Amazing About Grace [Reverberates] with particular poignancy...speak[s] honestly and eloquently. --Presbyterian Outlook Serves to illuminate a path through the ambiguities and complexities of human life. --Arkansas Democrat-Gazette I look to Frederick Buechner as a mentor in literature and faith, and this book marvelously combines both. --Philip Yancey, author of What's So Amazing About Grace Serves to illuminate a path through the ambiguities and complexities of human life. --Arkansas Democrat-Gazette A hauntingly terrifying and beautiful book about the depths of human existence. --Dallas Willard, author of The Divine Conspiracy [Reverberates] with particular poignancy...speak[s] honestly and eloquently. --Presbyterian Outlook

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An ordained Presbyterian minister who has been hailed by the Boston Globe as ""one of our finest writers,"" Frederick Buechner is the author of 30 works of fiction and nonfiction. His work has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize (Godric) and the National Book Award (Lion Country) and he has been honored by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He divides his time between Vermont and Florida.

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