2005 First Printing, with complete number line. Inscribed to former owner by Brian Doyle on the half title page and signed by Doyle on the title page. Edgewear to both book and dustjacket. Binding solid. All pages intact and free of marks.

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Title: The Wet Engine: Exploring Mad Wild Miracle of Heart
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1557254052
ISBN 13: 9781557254054
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

"Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise, and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old."

The heart: it is known as the seat of the soul, the power house of the body, the essence of spirituality. No other bodily organ has so captured the imagination of human beings since the beginning of time.

This startling, genuinely unique book moves like a freight train through the scientific, emotional, literary, philosophical, and spiritual understandings of the heart -- from cardiology to courage, from love letters and pop songs to Jesus. The torment of Doyle's own infant son's heart surgery is the thread weaving the strands together, but the wisdom is for every person who seeks a more passionate life, in touch with the heart of God.

"This wonderful book has two heroes: a small boy with a damaged heart, and a surgeon who knows how to repair the damaged hearts of small boys. Such heroes deserve a gifted poet to sing their songs. Brian Doyle is that poet." -Chet Raymo, author of Climbing Brandon: Science and Faith on Ireland's Holy Mountain

About the Author

BRIAN DOYLE is the Editor of Portland Magazine, winner of three consecutive national gold medals as the finest small-circulation university magazine in the United States. An award-winning essayist, he has authored five other books and his writing has appeared in The Best American Essays and The Best Spiritual Essays. He lives with his family in Portland, Oregon.

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