The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage
By Paul Elie.
Description
The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for GodIn the mid–twentieth century four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious faith was to write about them—in works that readers of all kinds could admire. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is their story—a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us.Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O’Connor a “Christ-haunted” ...
ISBN(s)
0374256802, 9780374256807
