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Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes
by Kendrick, Stephen
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375403663
- ISBN 13
- 9780375403668
- Seller
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1999. Stated First Edition Signed and inscribed on fep. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 192 rough cut pages. Pictorial hardcover underneath jacket is a silhouette of Sherlock Holmes and the central figure peaks through an opening in the dust jacket. From jacket: "Inspired by Holmes' comment to Dr. Watson ("You see but you do not observe"), Stephen Kendrick examines the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle to uncover the religious and metaphysical lessons they offer. Reading detective fiction as parable, Kendrick shows that the methods of investigation used in solving crime - particularly that of careful observation, what Buddhism calls "Bare Attention" - are the same methods that yield religious insight when applied to the world and the human heart. A spiritual seeker is a detective of the sacred, and so the lessons of detection - that nothing is insignificant, that you must notice what you see, that the bizarre is not necessarily the mysterious...are also instructions in how to become attuned to the mystery of life and god." Price clipped dust jacket; light wear to jacket, bumped top of jacket spine and top corners. . Signed by Author. First. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Stephen Kendrick is the Parish Minister of the Universalist Church of West Hartford, Connecticut, and has peviouslty served churches in Maryland and Pennsylvania and Unitarian chapels in West Midlands of England. He recieved his B.A. from Princeton, his M.Div. from the Harvard Divinity School, and a master's degree in creative writing from the Hollins College Writing Program. His articles have appeared in The Christian Century, The Hartford Courant, and The Hartford Advocate. He lives in West Hartford.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charity Bookstall
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005325
- Title
- Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes
- Author
- Kendrick, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0375403663
- ISBN 13
- 9780375403668
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- signed; autographed; First Edition; Sherlock Holmes; Religious
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; Religious; First Editions;
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