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The good book : writers reflect on favorite Bible passages / edited by Andrew Blauner.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible as literature.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 298 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2015.
- Summary:
- "A collection of previously unpublished pieces by 32 of today's most prominent writers shares their thoughts about biblical passages they find personally meaningful, in a volume that includes contributions by such figures as Edwidge Danticat, Tobias Wolff and Ian Frazier,"--NoveList.
- Contents:
- Who is the snake in the Garden of Eden? : a thought experiment / Avi Steinberg
- Noah / Charles McGrath
- Abraham, Isaac, and us : (and Hagar and Ishmael and Trayvon and Michael Brown, too) / Michael Eric Dyson
- My Father's commandments / Jane Leavy
- He who struggles with God / Alec Wilkinson
- Deuterogeniture, or How I killed my grandmother / André Aciman
- The best Jew in the family / Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts
- Come on in, the water's fine / A.J. Jacobs
- Desert stories / Kathleen Norris
- The book of Ruth / Lois Lowry
- Why Psalms is my favorite biblical book / Reverend Al Sharpton
- A reading of the Shepherd's Psalm / Lydia Davis
- Guilty feet have got no rhythm / James Parker
- The song of songs / Pico Iyer
- The valley of dry bones / Samuel G. Freedman
- The book of Jonah: a postmodern exegesis / Daniel Menaker
- New moon haftorah / Robert Pinsky
- The good thief / Ian Caldwell
- The womb and the cistern cell / Brooks Hansen
- Sermon on the mount / Jay Parini
- This saying / Ian Frazier
- Miracles / Thomas Lynch
- Never quite as simple / Owen King
- Long road home : thoughts on the prodigal son / Tobias Wolff
- The beloved disciple / Colm Tóibín
- The parables of Jesus of Nazareth / Rick Moody
- A matter of infinity / Clyde Edgerton
- The beginning of the end / Paul Elie
- Resurrection / Kerry Kennedy
- A voice from Heaven / Edwidge Danticat
- Living on the ledge / Lauren Slater
- The bad book / Robert Coover.
- ISBN:
- 9781476789965
- 1476789967
- 9781476789972
- 1476789975
- OCLC:
- 906294959
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