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" Speak what we feel (not what we ought to say) : "
Frederick Buechner.
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BL
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1004270
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b758640
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Buechner, Frederick,1926-
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Speak what we feel (not what we ought to say) : : reflections on literature and faith /\ Frederick Buechner.
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First edition.
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[San Francisco] :: HarperSanFrancisco,, 2001.
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, ©2001
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xi, 161 pages ;; 22 cm
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006251752X
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: 0062517538
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: 9780062517524
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: 9780062517531
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| Abstract
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"In this compelling book, the great contemporary spiritual writer and novelist Frederick Buechner plumbs the mysteries and truths behind the literature that speaks to him most powerfully. Buechner presents the four authors who have been his greatest influences, focusing on the question that has emerged at the center of his life - how to face mortality, failure, and tragedy. Through sensitive biographical exploration and close reading of Gerard Manley Hopkins's sublime later sonnets, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, and William Shakespeare's most powerful play, King Lear, Buechner invites readers to discover the deeper joy and purpose of reading.
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He shows how these writers - by putting their passion and pain into their work - have enabled him to bear the weight of his own grief and sadness by "speaking out from under the burden of theirs."Buechner's ruminations on their writings leads to the revelation that God accepts us for doing the best we can, even if our lives are in some ways a failure; even if we have lived a life haunted by tragedy, as Buechner's has been haunted by his father's suicide."--Jacket.
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Chesterton, G. K., (Gilbert Keith),1874-1936., Man who was Thursday.
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley,1844-1889-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William,1564-1616., King Lear.
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Twain, Mark,1835-1910., Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Twain, Mark,1835-1910., Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley,1844-1889
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Christianity and literature-- Great Britain-- History.
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Christianity and literature-- United States.
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English literature-- History and criticism.
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Faith in literature.
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Religion in literature.
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Christianity and literature.
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English literature.
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Faith in literature.
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Religion in literature.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain, Mark)
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King Lear (Shakespeare, William)
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Man who was Thursday (Chesterton, G. K.)
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Great Britain.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/382
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PR408.C47B84 2001
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