{"product_id":"life-you-save-may-be-your-own-an-american-pilgrimage","title":"Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eLife You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePaul Elie\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780374256807\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2003\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e560\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThe story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God \u003cbr\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. \"The Life You Save May Be Your Own\" is their story--a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us. \u003cbr\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.\" \u003cbr\u003eA pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story; and in \"The Life You Save May Be Your Own\" 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\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage | Paul Elie | Hardcover | 9780374256807 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks E 1742896","offer_id":48180170195096,"sku":"1742896","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71H01m0bKHL.jpg?v=1772215809","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/life-you-save-may-be-your-own-an-american-pilgrimage","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}