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A private history of awe, Scott Russell Sanders

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When the author was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe, the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything. He writes, "The search for communion with this power has run like a bright thread through all my days". This book is an account of his search, told as a series of dramatic, spiritually charged episodes including his early memory of watching a fire with his father, his attraction to the solemn cadences of the Bible despite his frustration with Sunday school religion, his discovery of books and the body, his mounting opposition to the Vietnam War and all forms of violence, his decision, after the heady experience of education at Brown and Cambridge, to return to the Midwest and raise a family in the place of his roots. In many ways, this is the story of a generation's passage through the 1960s, from innocence to experience, from euphoria to disillusionment. But the author has found a language that captures the transcendence in ordinary lives in the pattern of American coming of age. By framing his recollections with present-day accounts of tending to his ailing mother and his newborn granddaughter, he weaves his story into the larger history of his family, illuminating the cycles of life that bind together generations
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eng
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A private history of awe
Title
A private history of awe
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Scott Russell Sanders
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Language
eng
Summary
When the author was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe, the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything. He writes, "The search for communion with this power has run like a bright thread through all my days". This book is an account of his search, told as a series of dramatic, spiritually charged episodes including his early memory of watching a fire with his father, his attraction to the solemn cadences of the Bible despite his frustration with Sunday school religion, his discovery of books and the body, his mounting opposition to the Vietnam War and all forms of violence, his decision, after the heady experience of education at Brown and Cambridge, to return to the Midwest and raise a family in the place of his roots. In many ways, this is the story of a generation's passage through the 1960s, from innocence to experience, from euphoria to disillusionment. But the author has found a language that captures the transcendence in ordinary lives in the pattern of American coming of age. By framing his recollections with present-day accounts of tending to his ailing mother and his newborn granddaughter, he weaves his story into the larger history of his family, illuminating the cycles of life that bind together generations
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1945-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Sanders, Scott R.
Dewey number
813/.54
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3569.A5137
LC item number
Z47 2006
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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  • Sanders, Scott R.
  • Sanders, Scott R.
  • Sanders, Scott R.
  • Authors, American
  • Awe
  • Authors, American
  • Awe
  • Families
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A private history of awe, Scott Russell Sanders
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Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-320)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Fire -- Air -- Water -- Earth
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
1 online resource (322 pages)
Form of item
online
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other control number
9780865476936
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1040019339
Label
A private history of awe, Scott Russell Sanders
Link
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-320)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Fire -- Air -- Water -- Earth
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
1 online resource (322 pages)
Form of item
online
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other control number
9780865476936
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1040019339

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