The Devil and Pierre Gernet: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802817686)

Brilliant scholar and wordsmith David Bentley Hart turns his mind and imagination to narrative fiction in this volume, The Devil and Pierre Gernet, 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."

These 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.

Often 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.

Author: David Bentley Hart
ISBN-10: 0802817688
ISBN-13: 9780802817686
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2012
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Books & Culture 07/01/2013 pg. 22