A Private History of Awe by Sanders, Scott Russell - 2007

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text.

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Brand: North Point Press, 2007-03-06. First Edition. paperback. Used: Good.

North Point Press, 2007. Paperback. Good. An original and searching memoir from "one of America's finest essayists" ( Phillip Lopate) When Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe--"the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything." He says, "The search for communion with this power has run like a bright thread through all my days." A Private History of Awe is an account of this search, told as a series of awe-inspiring episodes: his early memory of watching a fire with his father; his attraction to the solemn cadences of the Bible despite his frustration with Sunday-school religion; his discovery of books and the body; his mounting opposition to the Vietnam War and all forms of violence; his decision to leave behind the university life of Oxford and Harvard and return to Indiana, where three generations of his family have put down roots. In many ways, this is the story of a generation's passage through the… Read More

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Brand: North Point Press, 2007-03-06. First Edition. paperback. Used:Good.

North Point Press, 2007-03-06. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!