Meetings With the Archangel: A Comedy of the Spirit - Softcover

Mitchell, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060932481 ISBN 13: 9780060932480

Publisher: Perennial, 1999

Synopsis

When the archangel Gabriel appears to a narrator who has written a bestselling book called Against Angels, our whole view of the world is turned on its head. What is the nature of bliss? What games do angels play? What is angelic sex like? Gabriel gives an intensely erotic and moving demonstration of this, leaving us, as he leaves the narrator, breathless. Later, he takes us on a guided tour of the heavens and introduces us to, among other spirits, William Blake. The three chapters of dialogues between Gabriel and the narrator--surprising, poetic, instructive, funny, and improbably real--may be as fascinating to those who can't stand angels as to those who are enchanted with them.

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When the archangel Gabriel appears to a narrator who has written a bestselling book called 'Against angels', our whole world view is turned on its head. What is the nature of bliss? What games do angels play? What is angelic sex like? Gabriel gives an intensely erotic and moving demonstration of this. Later he takes us on a guided tour of the heavens and introduces us to, among other spirits, William Blake, Thomas Aquinas and Spinoza.

But 'Meetings with the Archangel' is primarily about humans, not angels. Its central section is the story of the narrator's spiritual training, which culminates in his experience of enlightenment. It is an ambitious, searching and sometimes hilarious story of his efforts to get to the heart of our lives and the questions of how we should live, what truth is, what love is, how we can respond to evil.

"Stephen Mitchell's work has often given me the strength to go on writing from the heart; he is one of the American voices I most admire today. His new book 'Meetings with the Archangel', is an absolutely incredible piece of writing: extremely witty, profound, erotic, and deeply satisfying in many ways."
Erica Jong

"Its accounts of Zen training surpass any I've seen..."
Harold Bloom

About this edition

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0060932481
• ISBN 13: 9780060932480
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 245