Living With a Wild God: A Non-Believer’s Search for the Truth about Everything - Couverture rigide

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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ISBN 10 : 1847084095 ISBN 13 : 9781847084095

Editeur : Granta Books, 2014

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'The poet Robert Browning warned us that just when we are safest a friend's death or a sudden line of verse can start old questions reeling in our minds again. Be warned: this book will have the same effect, so don't read it if you don't want all your safe conclusions about the meaning of life shaken and stirred' --Richard Holloway

'Ehrenreich writes like a dream - elegantly carrying the reader with her on her latest and oddest of first-person journeys. Ehrenreich has produced a minor miracle: a book about these moments of transcendence that many have experienced but most have privately filed away' --Daily Telegraph

'Living With a Wild God makes for pleasantly prickly reading' --New York Times

'Compelling' --'Book of the Week', Independent

'Audacious... a winning approach to autobiography' --Financial Times

'The award-winning American essayist Barbara Ehrenreich is incapable of penning a dull sentence. Her latest book, Living With a Wild God, is a fascinating memoir about rationality and mysticism' --'Stella Loves', Sunday Telegraph's Stella Magazine

'Audacious... a winning approach to autobiography' --Financial Times

'Exhilarating, intelligent and thoughtful, Living With a Wild God is is a fascinating spiritual odyssey, rigorously honest and deeply moving' --Sunday Times

'A stimulating read... Living With A Wild God is a heartfelt and provocative book' --Sunday Business Post

'Ehrenreich writes like a dream, elegantly carrying her reader with her' --'Summer Reads', Daily Telegraph

'A stimulating read... Living With A Wild God is a heartfelt and provocative book' --Sunday Business Post

'Living With a Wild God provides not just a vivid subjective account of an intense spiritual experience but an insight into this complex and intriguing woman and writer. An arresting account of adolescence illuminated by her intelligence and fluency. The final chapter is an interesting review of the historical, scientific and religious explanations of mystical experiences, along with her usual intelligent and acerbic commentary' --Irish Times

'A stimulating read... Living With A Wild God is a heartfelt and provocative book' --Sunday Business Post

'Fascinating' --Book of the year chosen by Marcus Tanner, Independent

'A stimulating read... Living With A Wild God is a heartfelt and provocative book' --Sunday Business Post

Présentation de l'éditeur :

As a teenager Barbara Ehrenreich was an atheist and a rationalist, determined to understand the meaning of life. During this time she would regularly have minor experiences of dissociation, of seeing the world in a strange light. Then when she was 17, while on a skiing trip, she had an overwhelming, cataclysmic 'mystical' experience, far more rapturous and ecstatic than anything she had had before. The rapture would return later in life, but never with the same intensity. These episodes, and the rational Ehrenreich's ongoing argument with them, are at the core of this unique book. To try to understand the experience of some sort of force, 'out there', trying to communicate with her, Ehrenreich, a renowned investigative writer and self-described myth-buster, reads neurology, theology, philosophy, and accounts of other people's mystical experiences. Interwoven with her research is the story of the precocious adolescent that she once was, and a moving memoir of the life that shaped her.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Granta Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1847084095
• ISBN 13: 9781847084095
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 256