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Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
Verlag: Komos Books, Fort Collins, Colorado, 2020
ISBN 10: 195200621XISBN 13: 9781952006210
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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269 pp. Octavo. [22 3/4 cm]. Illustrated wraps. Sacred Books & Sky Hooks is a genre-bending literary thriller with occasional dollops of humor. It resembles Melville's Moby Dick in one respect: each narrative is punctuated by nonfictional discussions of a central subject. Instead of whales and whaling, this novel deals with the subject of founder myths: sacred stories told by and about founders of religious movements. And instead of being a tale of a quest on the high seas, it is a thriller featuring kidnapping, murder, and escape. Born into a family of Bostonian religious seekers, Washington lawyer, sleuth, and amateur comparative religionist Ethan Swift III puts three such mythsâ"those created by Corky Ra, founder of the contemporary start-up religion, Summum; Joseph Smith; and the Apostle Paulâ"on a virtual stand and finds them all guilty of making questionable claims about their divine revelations. On publishing his findings, he becomes anathema to the religiously correct, engages his nemesis in a Western-style shootout, and finally finds peace at a Japanese Buddhist temple. This novel plows a field near those tilled by Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code), Jon Krakauer (Under the Banner of Heaven), and Bart Ehrman (Jesus, Interrupted). It should appeal to those who read the "New Atheists" (Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens). -from publisher.
Verlag: Komos Books, Collins, Colorado, 2020
ISBN 10: 1952006015ISBN 13: 9781952006012
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Third edition. 243 pp. Octavo. [23 cm]. Illustrated wraps. Growing up in a Mennonite family in Inverness, Idaho back in the forties and fifties, John Reisender takes to wondering. Why had Great-grandma been married in a Muslim mosque way hell and gone out in the wilds of Central Asia? On the road to solving this perplexity, he finds himself excommunicated, temporarily, from the family religion. He discovers how his maternal grandfather escaped Czarist Russia, acts as an undertaker for a cat's funeral, takes a crash course in Nietzsche from the keeper of the city dump, escapes drowning, becomes an unsung, accidental semi-hero in a high school football game, cheats death on a spelunking expedition, and falls in lust with a girl who sports a derriere that reminds him of a WWII pinup. With a Dickensian cast of characters brimming with eccentrics, Crazy Were We in the Head hilariously and often movingly chronicles a singular American boyhood. -from the publisher.
Verlag: Komos Books, 2020
ISBN 10: 1952006112ISBN 13: 9781952006111
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 298.
Verlag: Komos Books, 2020
ISBN 10: 1952006112ISBN 13: 9781952006111
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
Buch
Zustand: Wie neu. Zustand: Wie neu | Seiten: 298.