The shack : a novel / by Wm. Paul Young ; in collaboration with Wayne Jacobsen and Brad Cummings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, William P.

Contributor:

Jacobsen, Wayne.

Cummings, Brad.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life change events--Fiction.

Life change events.

Missing children--Fiction.

Missing children.

Oregon--Fiction.

Oregon.

Genre:

Religious fiction.

Suspense fiction.

Physical Description:

248 p. ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, Calif. : Windblown Media, c2007.

Summary:

Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant, "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him.

Contents:

A confluence of paths

The gathering dark

The tipping point

The great sadness

Guess who's coming to dinner

A piece of "pi"

God on the dock

A breakfast of champions

A long time ago, in a garden far, far away

Wade in the water

Here come da judge

In the belly of the beasts

A meeting of hearts

Verbs and other freedoms

A festival of friends

A morning of sorrows

Choices of the heart

Outbound ripples

After words.

Notes:

"Where tragedy confronts eternity" -- subtitle on the front cover.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Dolores Garadetsky.

ISBN:

0964729237 (pbk.)

9780964729230 (pbk.)

OCLC:

428679705