Prayers from a NonBeliever - Hardcover

Cameron, Julia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585422134 ISBN 13: 9781585422135

Publisher: Tarcher, 2003

Synopsis

In a series of letters addressed to God, a young artist considers issues surrounding her faith, probes the challenge of maintaining her creativity in the midst of a busy modern life, and wonders at the meaning of art and its relationship to a spiritual life. By the author of The Artist's Way. 15,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Julia Cameron has been an active artist for more than thirty years. She is the author of many books, including The Artist's Way, The Vein of Gold, and The Right to Write, her bestselling works on the creative process. A novelist, playwright, songwriter, and poet, she has multiple credits in theater, film, and television.

Reviews

In this earnest and somewhat repetitive volume, Cameron-novelist, filmmaker, journalist, librettist, playwright, etc., and the author of the international bestseller The Artist's Way-ruminates on the identity of God, the power of creative energy and the meaning and consequences of faith. Framed as a series of letters to God from an anonymous "nonbeliever," a man of some means and much doubt, Cameron's book follows the "I" of the letter-prayers as he progresses from a kind of lazy agnosticism ("I don't officially believe in you") through a "a creeping sense of, alright, optimism" all the way to authentic belief ("I have put out the lit cigarette of cynicism smoldering on the sofa of my consciousness"). In his "conversations" with God, the narrator struggles with a job he detests, a sister whose passivity in an unhealthy relationship angers him, a longing for creative work and, perhaps most poignantly, an abiding loneliness. Readers of The Artist's Way and its many offshoots will find some of the material familiar-e.g., Cameron's attention to the Jungian concept of synchronicity and her belief in Matthew's "Ask and you shall receive" dictum. And though the letters repeat themselves and sometime feel a little whiny (hey, faith isn't easy, Cameron seems to say), Cameron's legions of fans will appreciate her honesty and her generosity of spirit. For those who seek company on the path to belief in self and "spiritual electricity," Cameron is a warm and expert guide.
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Alternately characterized as an epistolary novel and spirituality/creativity by the publisher, this work by the author of The Artist's Way consists of a series of letters on maintaining creativity in the rush of modern life. The letters' recipient? God.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tarcher
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585422134
• ISBN 13: 9781585422135
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128