Published by Grove Press January 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0739452746 ISBN 13: 9780739452745
Seller: Isle of Books, Bozeman, MT, U.S.A.
Paper Back. Condition: Very Good.
Published by Grove Press January 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0802141188 ISBN 13: 9780802141187
Seller: Firefly Bookstore, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Used Good. Front and back covers have light wear to edges and corners. Spine intact, some wear. Binding is intact. Pages are generally clean with minor edge or corner wear. Clearly a pre-owned and used copy but still in readable condition. There is a previous owner's name on the inside. Firefly sells new and used books through our store front. We try to add a detailed description to as many titles as possible. If you have questions regarding this title, please contact us. Photos available on request.
Published by Grove Press January 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0802140181 ISBN 13: 9780802140180
Seller: Calamity Books, Sheridan, WY, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Used.
Published by Grove Press January 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0802140602 ISBN 13: 9780802140609
Seller: Eighth Day Books, LLC, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Paper Back. Condition: New. As wonderfully strange and unique as individual conversions are, the ways they are related -- especially in collections intended for edification of the faithful -- can take on a familiar (and misleading) sameness: a wallowing in depravity followed by repentance, or a dissatisfaction with a previous faith leading to an embrace of a fuller one. Such narratives relate a linear, progressive movement from darkness to light, error to truth. Peter France's delightful memoir gives us a different sense of conversion, one that conveys a more complex reality of skepticism softened by human interaction, shadows gradually lightened -- but not completely dispelled -- by the willingness of the believers in his life to grant space for truth to manifest itself in its own good time. The shell of the story, itself sketched with understated hilarity, is that of France, a somewhat jaded BBC journalist and his Orthodox wife moving to the venerable isle of Patmos, adapting to its customs and culture. But the substance of the narrative is that of a man who encounters God in the unselfconscious joie de vivre of the inhabitants of Patmos, in the gaze of a nun serving cherry brandy after a service, in the reply of an Orthodox priest to France, who had just laid out the whole armory of materialist objections to faith and challenged him to respond: ''I would not say anything to you. I would simply live with you. And I would love you.''.
Published by Grove Press January 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0802140602 ISBN 13: 9780802140609
Seller: Eighth Day Books, LLC, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Paper Back. Condition: New. As wonderfully strange and unique as individual conversions are, the ways they are related -- especially in collections intended for edification of the faithful -- can take on a familiar (and misleading) sameness: a wallowing in depravity followed by repentance, or a dissatisfaction with a previous faith leading to an embrace of a fuller one. Such narratives relate a linear, progressive movement from darkness to light, error to truth. Peter France's delightful memoir gives us a different sense of conversion, one that conveys a more complex reality of skepticism softened by human interaction, shadows gradually lightened -- but not completely dispelled -- by the willingness of the believers in his life to grant space for truth to manifest itself in its own good time. The shell of the story, itself sketched with understated hilarity, is that of France, a somewhat jaded BBC journalist and his Orthodox wife moving to the venerable isle of Patmos, adapting to its customs and culture. But the substance of the narrative is that of a man who encounters God in the unselfconscious joie de vivre of the inhabitants of Patmos, in the gaze of a nun serving cherry brandy after a service, in the reply of an Orthodox priest to France, who had just laid out the whole armory of materialist objections to faith and challenged him to respond: ''I would not say anything to you. I would simply live with you. And I would love you.''.