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The Life You Save May Be Your Own

By Paul Elie

The Life You Save May Be Your Own Contemporary literature

The Life You Save May Be Your Own

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WINNER OF THE PEN/MARTHA ALBRAND AWARD FOR FIRST NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC AND SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O'Connor a "Christ-haunted" literary prodigy in Georgia; and Walker Percy a doctor in Louisiana who had quit medicine in order to write. Although they never met as a group, for three decades they read one another's work, corresponded, and grappled with what Percy called a "predicament shared in common": their desire to reconcile the claims of faith and art. A friend came up with a name for them-the School of the Holy Ghost. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is Paul Elie's now-classic group portrait of these four writers and the artistic and religious milieu they made their own. It is a riveting history of America's first Catholic literary moment-as the four go on pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past of Dante and Dostoevsky out into the chaos of postwar American life. It is a narrative of the ways faith took on forms the faithful could not have anticipated- through memoir and modernist fiction, in soup kitchens and street protests. And it is a story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us make sense of our experience. With a new afterword by the author, The Life You Save May Be Your Own demonstrates the power of great writing to change-and save-our lives.
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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
594
Release Date:
2025-05-27
Publication Date:
2025-05-27
Publisher:
Picador
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1250399149
ISBN13:
9781250399144
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
787 g
Height:
137 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
35 cm
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