{"product_id":"the-devil-and-pierre-gernet-stories-9780802817686","title":"The Devil and Pierre Gernet: Stories","description":"Brilliant scholar and wordsmith David Bentley Hart turns his mind and imagination to narrative fiction in this volume, \u003ci\u003eThe Devil and Pierre Gernet\u003c\/i\u003e, a thought-provoking collection of four short stories and one novella. Anticipating questions about his shift in genre, Hart writes that \"God is no more likely (and probably a good deal less likely) to be found in theology than in poetry and fiction.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese stories -- \"The Devil and Pierre Gernet,\" \"The House of Apollo,\" \"A Voice from the Emerald World,\" \"The Ivory Gate,\" and \"The Other\" -- beguile and entrance the reader through Hart's engrossing, opulent writing style and the complex characters he evokes and explores. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOften bedazzling, sometimes heartbreaking, and ultimately mesmerizing, Hart's wide-ranging stories are united by a common thread of haunting religious and philosophical questions about this life and the next. Here is fiction to fully engage both the mind and the heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Bentley Hart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802817686\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooks \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2013 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHart, David Bentley:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eDavid Bentley Hart\u003c\/b\u003e is a philosopher, theologian, writer, and cultural commentator who has taught at the University of Virginia, Duke University, and the University of Notre Dame. His other books include \u003ci\u003eThe Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eAtheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the Michael Ramsey Prize in Theology in 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42806603972723,"sku":"9.7808E+12","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_5f27663c-37fe-4939-981c-f73acee7af84.jpg?v=1738237774","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-devil-and-pierre-gernet-stories-9780802817686","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}