{"product_id":"the-life-you-save-may-be-your-own-an-american-pilgrimage-9780374529215","title":"The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Life You Save May Be Your Own\u003c\/i\u003e is their story-a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O'Connor a Christ-haunted literary prodigy in Georgia; Walker Percy a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. A friend came up with a name for them-the School of the Holy Ghost-and for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read one another's books, and grappled with what one of them called a predicament shared in common. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story; and in \u003ci\u003eThe Life You Save May Be Your Own\u003c\/i\u003e Paul Elie tells these writers' story as a pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past of Dante and Dostoevsky out into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life. It is a story of how the Catholic faith, in their vision of things, took on forms the faithful could not have anticipated. And it is a story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us make sense of our experience, about the power of literature to change-to save-our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Elie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374529215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Elie\u003c\/b\u003e, an editor at FSG, has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCommonweal\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Manhattan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39822587461747,"sku":"9780374529215","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_29e499c0-5246-484b-8799-e101dbaa7c23.jpg?v=1644523610","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-life-you-save-may-be-your-own-an-american-pilgrimage-9780374529215","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}