Summer reading
Marget, Madeline
From the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization Madeline...
...Readers already familiar with Price's work can learn something of the sources and authorial purpose behind his books...
...Literature is not a slice of life, able, Jefferson believes him...
...evokes a slightly different man, one sometimes off-puttingly sure, but also one whose Auibrel TF3i Lori ' nFr Irssand Hm rui IRISH Se...
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...A Lesson before Dying is Gaines's Mention this ad and receive a salvation is the way of spiritual danger...
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...Cahill strips away the pious accretions of 2000 years...
...Jefcellent introduction to Daily Readings ferson refuses to talk to Grant, and, in a Soul of a Christian Man: from Quaker Spirituality (Templegate, particularly disturbing passage, he eats A Spiritual look at $4.95, 96 pp...
...Later, dur- beauty of life, his dread at losing it, and Call Toll Free ing the 1930s, he wrote that "to withdraw his love for other people...
...From the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization Madeline Marget Discover Thomas Cahill's Madeline Marget is a frequent contributor to Commonweal...
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...Every human being wants to "In Friends' meetings also, from the fact The compassion and commitment be happy...
...seek only the selfish thrill of individual word...
...Biblical world better in the present...
...fulfills shares something of his creator's devo- Price's standards and exemplifies those tion to his father...
...At first, meaning," Edward Cell writes in his ex- the visits are miserable and troubling...
...ii, CI17iIt.111Vexperience, observations, talent, and faith are instructive and companionable...
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...Daily Readings from Quak- All three can easily fit in a backpack if er Spirituality is part of a twenty-volume you're hiking, or the satchel you carry 'Tn omas series...
...He shows little Are men the forgotten sex when always concerned with making the of his own humanity, and no pride...
...Literature shows us It falls to Grant Wiggins, the novel's A LTHORS TODAY life in a far more organized and con- narrator and the local school teacher, to trolled way, so that we can begin to at- visit Jefferson in prison and to counsel tempt to understand it in a way that we him, so that he will die with self-respect, FlGLJC...
...1 `v u l can't hope to understand the chaos of the spiritually upright even in the face of fatal world that just comes at us raw all day oppression...
...This whole life ruined and his kingdom lost, looming death is terrible...
...George Fox in 1660 and ends with Anony- ty-those in the black "quarter," and, to ISBN 088347-431-X mous in 1970, packing three centuries of some extent, whites...
...Quakers, he emphasizes, food out of a bag without using his hands, Spirituality are communal, Christian, mystical, and as if he really were a hog...
...along with the lemonade...
...Finally, he says 1-877-275-4725 from the human press and struggle and he'll go, like Jesus, "without a mumbling to place your order today...
...It's not a line human...
...He T OST POPULAR of someone saying, Baa ooh ska, tragedy is an animal-a hog...
...We discover, for example, that Kate Vaiden, the title-character of his perhaps best-known novel, partly depicts an alternate life for Price's beloved mother, while Hutch Mayfield, the protagonist of Price's trilogy (The Surface of the Earth, "Cahill accomplishes something the church itself would like to achieve: to wipe the slate clean...
...the urgent behest of his aunt, Jefferson's i,o L "One must do the truth to grasp its godmother, and a local preacher...
...I plan to embark immediately on on the subway...
...1 termined lives...
...When Lear comes out of a murder he didn t commit and is senwith Cordelia dead in his arms and his tenced to die in the electric chair...
...Ernest Gaines's novel A Lesson before all at hand...
...Jefferson cannot be guilty, the ten at the line carefully, it's a line of reg- lawyer argues, because he is less than FROM oNrE OF ular trochaic pentameter...
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...instead of a pleasant plaster of paris divinity, Jesus is a religious radical who comforts the afflicted, afflicts the comfortable, and confounds all expectations...
...O'Malley offers a harmonies and correspondences between with Jefferson overwhelm-or nearly prescription for the soul various utterances such as are scarcely to so-the bitterness and anger that domlooking for more in life...
...Rufus Jones urges Friends In turn, Jefferson gradually goes from $18.95 to spread good through "personal conta- silence to expressing his feeling for the gion," " in the manner of Christ...
...But what does that that everyone is free to speak, one hears Grant finds through his relationship mean...
...Jefferson s death...
...People who haven't read Price's memoirs and fiction can still find out about one especially articulate writer's transformation of actual, imaginative, and spiritual life into works of art...
...Grant does so reluctantly, at long like a hawk flying at our eyes...
...Naive and vulner,ATHOLIC oy vey...
...Meanwhile, Jefferson's plight and person role models are used to help men Cell's selection of readings starts with increasingly influence the communiin their quest to grow in faith...
...the atmosphere of first-century Judea...
...In segregated and racist literary art and of his participation in it, mid-twentieth-century Louisiana, Jefhowever, is the distinctive achievement of ferson, a young black man, is convicted this collection...
...r and it shouldn t be...
...be met elsewhere," Caroline Stephen inated him at the beginning of the novel...
...rare and inspiring"* account ach of the fifteen interviews that make up Conversations of Jesus and his time...
...He isn't capable of thought...
...In one vivid scene $12.95 wisdom, insight, love of God and of all and true characterization after another, human beings into less than seventy-five and through a narrative of tremendous The Pursuit of Happiness: pages...
...All the readings are infused with passion sensual story of a suffering man and his and sincerity, part of which comes from life-changing struggle...
...Price's description of of Quakerism...
...Even more he says that very desolate line, 'Never, damaging to Jefferson is his lawyer's denever, never, never, never.' But if you lis- fense...
...Political engagement, holy in the velocity, Gaines explores the journey to Evolving a Soul Quaker context, is a theme throughout...
...BookPage "[He is] single-handedly reinventing the craft of intellectual history...
...Or on your porch table, MOW Daily Readings with Julian of Norwich...
Vol. 127 • June 2000 • No. 12
