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A private history of awe / Scott Russell Sanders.

ISBN: 0865476934
ISBN: 9780865477345
Physical Description: 322 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: first edition
Publisher: New York : North Point Press, 2006.

Sanders, Scott R. (Scott Russell), 1945- (author.).

Summary:

"When Scott Russell Sanders 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.” A Private History of Awe is an account of his search, told as a series of dramatic, spiritually charged episodes: 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."--Amazon.