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This Sunrise of Wonder: Letters for the Journey
Michael Mayne
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Description for This Sunrise of Wonder: Letters for the Journey
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 28. Weight in Grams: 390. Letters for the Journey. 340 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HRCV. Dimension: 199 x 126 x 28. Weight: 398.
As Ronald Blythe writes in his Foreword, ‘This keenly argued book confronts today’s fashionable cynicism and despair, and thus has a message for the current moment when the experience of ageing, or the environment, or of those complex skills and emotions which go into the creation of poetry or stories or music, are all distorted or ignored in favour of what is called “reality”, but where the highest thought and achievement are concerned, is not at all real.’ Michael Mayne is one of the greatest Anglican priest-writers. His genius was to stir the reader to sit up and see, ... Read more
As Ronald Blythe writes in his Foreword, ‘This keenly argued book confronts today’s fashionable cynicism and despair, and thus has a message for the current moment when the experience of ageing, or the environment, or of those complex skills and emotions which go into the creation of poetry or stories or music, are all distorted or ignored in favour of what is called “reality”, but where the highest thought and achievement are concerned, is not at all real.’ Michael Mayne is one of the greatest Anglican priest-writers. His genius was to stir the reader to sit up and see, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Darton Longman and Todd
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780232527421
SKU
V9780232527421
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99-1
Reviews for This Sunrise of Wonder: Letters for the Journey
'This is a generous, life-enhancing book, to cherish and to keep.'
A. N. Wilson 'This book is a sheer delight from start to finish ... timely, challenging and very beautiful.'
Bishop Michael Marshall 'His insistence on the value of wonder ... is important and inspiring.'
P. J. Kavanagh
A. N. Wilson 'This book is a sheer delight from start to finish ... timely, challenging and very beautiful.'
Bishop Michael Marshall 'His insistence on the value of wonder ... is important and inspiring.'
P. J. Kavanagh