{"product_id":"the-life-you-save-may-paul-elie-9780374529215","title":"The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious faith was to write about them-in works that readers of all kinds could admire. \u003ci\u003eThe Life You Save May Be Your Own\u003c\/i\u003e is their story-a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O'Connor a \"Christ-haunted\" literary prodigy in Georgia; Walker Percy a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. A friend came up with a name for them-the School of the Holy Ghost-and for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read one another's books, and grappled with what one of them called a \"predicament shared in common.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story; and in \u003ci\u003eThe Life You Save May Be Your Own\u003c\/i\u003e Paul Elie tells these writers' story as a pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past of Dante and Dostoevsky out into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life. It is a story of how the Catholic faith, in their vision of things, took on forms the faithful could not have anticipated. And it is a story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us make sense of our experience, about the power of literature to change-to save-our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Elie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374529213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374529215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.60d","brand":"Paul Elie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045015122175,"sku":"9780374529215","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4379dd0c-c40b-4ae5-ad7c-0d45231ec1aa.jpg?v=1684976228","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-life-you-save-may-paul-elie-9780374529215","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}