Alone in a Pew
Author | : Kent E. Olsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2009-08 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781441554802 |
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Author | : Kent E. Olsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2009-08 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781441554802 |
Author | : Catherine Lacey |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2020-07-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374720134 |
WINNER of the 2021 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. Finalist for the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize. Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. One of Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction Books of 2020. One of Amazon's 100 Best Books of 2020. “The people of this community are stifling, and generous, cruel, earnest, needy, overconfident, fragile and repressive, which is to say that they are brilliantly rendered by their wise maker, Catherine Lacey.” --Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers A figure with no discernible identity appears in a small, religious town, throwing its inhabitants into a frenzy In a small, unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives for a service and finds a figure asleep on a pew. The person is genderless and racially ambiguous and refuses to speak. One family takes in the strange visitor and nicknames them Pew. As the town spends the week preparing for a mysterious Forgiveness Festival, Pew is shuttled from one household to the next. The earnest and seemingly well-meaning townspeople see conflicting identities in Pew, and many confess their fears and secrets to them in one-sided conversations. Pew listens and observes while experiencing brief flashes of past lives or clues about their origin. As days pass, the void around Pew’s presence begins to unnerve the community, whose generosity erodes into menace and suspicion. Yet by the time Pew’s story reaches a shattering and unsettling climax at the Forgiveness Festival, the secret of who they really are—a devil or an angel or something else entirely—is dwarfed by even larger truths. Pew, Catherine Lacey’s third novel, is a foreboding, provocative, and amorphous fable about the world today: its contradictions, its flimsy morality, and the limits of judging others based on their appearance. With precision and restraint, one of our most beloved and boundary-pushing writers holds up a mirror to her characters’ true selves, revealing something about forgiveness, perception, and the faulty tools society uses to categorize human complexity.
Author | : Parry Ann Brown |
Publisher | : Villard |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375757058 |
Returning to Baltimore from Los Angeles to bury her late father, Glynda Naylor and her three sisters celebrate their father's life and search for answers about who the real Edward Naylor, who had raised them after their mother's death, was. Original. 35,000 first printing.
Author | : Richard Starks |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2012-09-04 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0762788801 |
An offbeat and entertaining account of a journey through Spain – staying only in ancient monasteries.
Author | : Dwight Lee Wolter |
Publisher | : The Pilgrim Press |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2023-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0829800646 |
Taking an eraser to loneliness will not erase it. Trying to drink loneliness away will not quench its thirst. Shaming loneliness will not disempower it. In The Gospel of Loneliness, author and pastor Dwight Wolter offers the encouragement that loneliness is an exploration and a teacher to make room for—not to avoid. Wolter examines the expressions of loneliness in our lives: revisiting biblical stories and fables, listening to pop music, studying its dynamic in the pews, and exploring the future of artificial companionship.
Author | : Ecclesiological Society |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2022-02-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752569565 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Author | : Richard TABRAM (Attorney-at-Law.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1823 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robbie F. Castleman |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2012-11-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830866477 |
In this upbeat book Robbie Castleman shows parents how to guide their toddlers and teenagers to participate more fully in the worship of the church. This significantly revised and updated edition includes a new preface and new appendices with ideas for children's sermons and intergenerational community.
Author | : J. M. Barrie |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2017-10-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8027224039 |
Auld Licht Idylls depicts life in late 19th century small town of Thrums in Scotland. The story revolves around the citizens of Thrums and more especially the members of one of the four churches in that community, of which the Auld Licht Kirk happens to be more committed Calvinist's than any other group in Scotland. The novel shows how a church, no matter how well intended, can become twisted by a human attempt at perfection. A Window in Thrums is another tale of a small Scottish town of Thrums, where an invalid old lady watches her world from the window. She witnesses various events in this early 20th century place where small occurrences take on great importance. The Little Minister – Gavin Dishart is a slight of frame young man, determined to take his corner of the world by storm. He becomes the minister in Thrums and idol of the community, but he falls in love with free spirited Babbie and their romance is not well received among the citizens of Thrums. As her full background comes to light, things get complicated for Gavin. Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland but moved to London, where he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland.