Wolf - Hardcover

Bell, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345337735 ISBN 13: 9780345337733

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1988

Synopsis

A collection of stories, songs, poems, and modern-day parables peopled with men and women who struggle with contemporary problems probes the meaning of the human spirit and the doctrine of unconditional love

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Spiritual and emotional epiphanies are the subject of five simply told tales by the author of the well-received The Way of the Wolf . In the lives of ordinary people who become special by reason of their approach to others, the redemptive power of suffering and sorrow is explored. Reba, who works for leftover doughnuts, mothers a brood of retarded adults; young Conrad experiences a secret Christmas despite violence done to his family; Helen bridges a gap of 23 years of estrangement in finding her homeless mother; truant student Brady stumbles into a funeral where he makes a difference. Bell, an Episcopal priest, writes about characters who evoke the presence of grace in troubled environments. His inspirational stories bear the trademark of a great silver wolf's silent presence.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

These spellbinding tales, in which "nothing and everything looks familiar," deal with seemingly ordinary folk (an alcoholic gambler; a woman who cares for mentally retarded adults) whose marginal landscapes are mysteriously lit up by grace, often when an "uncanny bond or connection" with a stranger becomes the catalyst for God's transforming power. At the centermetaphorically and literallyis the emblematic silver wolf, who appears in an alley just halfway through these haunting tales and who has by now become Bell's hallmark ( The Return of the Wolf , LJ 8/83). Masterful writing by a master craftsman. EC
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0345337735
• ISBN 13: 9780345337733
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 182