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Brilliant scholar and wordsmith David Bentley Hart turns his mind and imagination to narrative fiction in this volume,
The Devil and Pierre Gernet, a thought-provoking collection of four short stories and one novella. Anticipating questions about his shift in genre, Hart writes that "God is no more likely (and probably a good deal less likely) to be found in theology than in poetry and fiction."
These stories — "The Devil and Pierre Gernet," "The House of Apollo," "A Voice from the Emerald World," "The Ivory Gate," and "The Other" — beguile and entrance the reader through Hart's engrossing, opulent writing style and the complex characters he evokes and explores.
Often bedazzling, sometimes heartbreaking, and ultimately mesmerizing, Hart's wide- ranging stories are united by a common thread of haunting religious and philosophical questions about this life and the next. Here is fiction to fully engage both the mind and the heart.
Read a blog post and an excerpt by editor Mary Hietbrink and David Bentley Hart on
EerdWord.
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"Excellent collection of short stories. . . . This is a beautiful book."