Synopsis
Essayist Anne Lamott presents still further thoughts on the spiritual path in this collection, which follows her bestsellers TRAVELING MERCIES and PLAN B. Everyday life--its challenges, opportunities, disappointments, and surprises--as well as her character flaws----anger, jealousy, envy--get in the way. But she trusts, and we trust too, that she will find consolation. Just not yet. In the meantime, readers will identify, and note that if she has not yet mastered herself, she has mastered the personal essay form.
Wherever you look, there's trouble and wonder, pain and beauty, restoration and darkness--sometimes all at once. Yet amid the confusion, if you look carefully, in nature or in the kitchen, in ordinariness or in mystery, beyond the emotion muck we all slog through, you'll find it eventually: a path, some light to see by, moments of insight, courage, or buoyancy. In other words, grace. Lamott knows and lives by this belief, most of the time. In these essays, she recounts the missteps, detours, and roadblocks in her walk of faith.--From publisher description.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2007-03-20 |
| Size | | Length: | 253 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 12.0 oz |
Publisher's Note
A follow-up to the best-selling Plan B examines the ways in which people are caught up by such challenges as work, parenting, and politics, in a collection of essays that describes her struggles with faith in the face of her son's teen years, today's headlines, and an obstinate carpet salesman. 200,000 first printing.
Industry Reviews
"I began with a suspicion that her pieces were going to be too obvious, too sentimental, and then found myself suddenly disarmed by an unexpected turn of phrase, a flash of humor or a psychological insight....In Lamott's best work, humor strengthens whatever serious point she's trying to make....Still, she's never afraid to flail around or sound silly. More important, she manages to suggest that she's your ally, the funny best friend who knows instinctively that you've had these troubles too. And perhaps that's why readers continue to find something fresh in everything she has to say."
(04/01/2007)
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