How the Body Prays
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Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1555972888
ISBN13:9781555972882
Release Date:April 1999
Publisher:Graywolf Press
Length:245 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Jacket Blurb
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
How the Body Prays invites us to view a gallery of family portraits, each give the power of speech and vivid narrative. Weltner's strikingly distinct characters tell their stories, or parts of them, acting in concert to produce a contrapuntal chronicle of American experience through several decades. The themes of war, mutilation, love, death, religious aspiration, and music itself recur and intertwine in a long, polyphonic lament designed to further the ideal of life lived fearlessly in the present moment. Liner notes like these here can't , however, convey the actual impact of this cultivated, highly wrought novel. Alfred Corn
Meditation
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
The previous reviewer sounds like maybe a disgruntled student who did not do so well in Mr. Weltner's class. The book itself seems to hark back to works by Hemingway and Faulkner. Mr. Weltner has an astute knowledge of literature and his influences appear readily in this novel.
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