{"product_id":"darling-richard-rodriguez-9780143125884","title":"Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning writer delivers a major reckoning with religion, place, and sexuality in the aftermath of 9\/11\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHailed in \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003eas \"one of the most eloquent and probing public intellectuals in America,\" Richard Rodriguez now considers religious violence worldwide, growing public atheism in the West, and his own mortality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRodriguez's stylish new memoir--the first book in a decade from the Pulitzer Prize finalist--moves from Jerusalem to Silicon Valley, from Moses to Liberace, from Lance Armstrong to Mother Teresa. Rodriguez is a homosexual who writes with love of the religions of the desert that exclude him. He is a passionate, unorthodox Christian who is always mindful of his relationship to Judaism and Islam because of a shared belief in the God who revealed himself within an ecology of emptiness. And at the center of this book is a consideration of women--their importance to Rodriguez's spiritual formation and their centrality to the future of the desert religions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnly a mind as elastic and refined as Rodriguez's could bind these threads together into this wonderfully complex tapestry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Rodriguez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143125885\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143125884\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/14\/2014 pg. 28","brand":"Richard Rodriguez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44080254451967,"sku":"9780143125884","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_030d6a15-78ef-4740-8227-e06bbfbdcce6.jpg?v=1685485786","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/darling-richard-rodriguez-9780143125884","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}