{"product_id":"signals-from-a-lampless-beacon-paul-traywick-9781440126390","title":"Signals from a Lampless Beacon: Beasts of Burden","description":"A long-dark lamp is rekindled.\u003cp\u003e The South is unshrouded from the Gothic cloth woven by so many poets, dramatists, and novelists of stature. Characters share their obsessive lunacies and tragic error with the rest of humankind; their heritage of cultivation, moral strength, and compassion is allowed to stand forth in a chronicle of two races, of three families, of four generations, beginning in Wartime of 1941-1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Abduction aboard a U-boat; violation, suicide, and intimations of redemption; global amnesia, its complications, its release; extortion by a priest prepared-he supposes-to commit murder in the process; falling in love; losing one's love; near-drowning at the climax of an idiosyncratic deer-shoot-these are elements of a story punctuated by homilies from a clergyman wandering quietly away from Christian orthodoxy toward heresy...or toward Apollonian light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e If the story ends, its symbols and themes need not; no more than ends Mr. Benny Ormond, veteran of the Great War who has escaped so many threats to life to which those around him have succumbed that he comes to suspect, against his better judgement, that he is destined not to see death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Throughout, the reader is directed away from the sense of man's possession of God to a beginning grasp of God as Self-transcendent...leaving an apparent emptiness, into which, however, for the watchful, signals pour, saying, \"Lift up your Hearts.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Traywick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1440126399\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781440126390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2012\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Traywick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458308550911,"sku":"9781440126390","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d9254eeb-f28b-4e18-895b-8881af96f7a2.jpg?v=1777403631","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/signals-from-a-lampless-beacon-paul-traywick-9781440126390","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}