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Traveling mercies : some thoughts on faith / Anne Lamott.

Lamott, Anne. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0786219610 (lg. print) :
  • Physical Description: 357 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Large print ed.
  • Publisher: Thorndike, Me. : Thorndike Press, c1999.
Subject: Lamott, Anne > Religion.
Women novelists > 20th century > Biography.
Christian biography > United States.
Mothers and sons > United States.
Faith.
Genre: Large type books.

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Syndetic Solutions - Publishers Weekly Review for ISBN Number 0786219610
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A key moment in the step-by-step spiritual awakening of the author came to her as a freshman in college when an impassioned professor taught her Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling. Raised by her bohemian California family to believe only in "books and music and nature," Lamott (Bird by Bird; Operating Instructions) was enthralled by the Danish philosopher's rendition of the biblical story of Abraham and Isaac. Abraham, Lamott learned, so trusted in God's love that he was willing to follow the order to sacrifice his own son. This story pierced Lamott and she "crossed over. I don't know how else to put it or how and why I actively made, if not exactly a leap of faith, a lurch of faith.... I left class believing‘accepting‘that there was a God." Nonetheless, it would take the heartbreak of her father's death and more than a dozen years of escalating drug and alcohol addiction to bring Lamott to fully embrace Christianity. In a short autobiography and 24 vignettes that appeared in earlier versions in the online magazine Salon, Lamott blends raw emotional honesty with self-mocking goofiness to show how the faith she has cultivated at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church in the poor community of Marin City, Calif., translates into her everyday life and friendships, especially into her relationship with her young son, Sam. Although Lamott's clever style sometimes feels too calculated, the best bits here memorably convey the peace that can descend when a sensitive, modern woman accepts the love of God with her own brand of fear and trembling. First serial to Mirabella; author tour. Agent, Chuck Verrill. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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A best-selling author explains how she came to believe in God. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Lamott's books are so alluring they seem to emit a gravitational force. A tender and perceptive novelist, Lamott is more than generous with the circumstantial and emotional facts of her private life in her nonfiction, writing here about profound crises and amazing salvations. The daughter of nonreligious California parents, Lamott longed for a context for her innate spirituality, especially after experiencing a "lurch of faith" in college, but instead sought escape from psychic pain in alcohol and drugs for many lonely years until she happened on a music-filled church in Oakland and found her spiritual family. Squeezing every last drop of meaning out of even the smallest things, Lamott writes agilely about such watershed events as the deaths of her father and closest woman friend, and the birth of her son and life as a single mother, all the while tracing her slow crawl back to faith with wonder, gratitude, and an irrepressible love of a good story. --Donna Seaman


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