All of Life in Nine Minutes: An Unlikely Story of Finding Freedom - Hardcover

Nouwen, Henri J M; Whitney-Brown, Carolyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006311352X ISBN 13: 9780063113527

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2022

Synopsis

Henri Nouwen’s never-before-published story of his surprising friendship with a traveling trapeze troupe.

During the last five years of his life, best-selling spiritual author Henri J. M. Nouwen became close to The Flying Rodleighs, a trapeze troupe in a traveling circus. Like Nouwen’s own life, a trapeze act is full of artistry, exhilarating successes, crushing failures and continual forgiveness. He wrote about his experience in a genre new to him: creative non-fiction. 

In Flying, Falling, Catching, Nouwen's colleague and friend Carolyn Whitney-Brown presents his unpublished trapeze writings framed by the true story of his rescue through a hotel window by paramedics during his first heart attack. Readers will meet Nouwen as a spiritual risk taker who was transformed through his engagement with these trapeze artists, as well as his participation in the Civil Rights movement, his life in community with people with intellectual disabilities, his personal growth through friendships during the 1990s AIDS pandemic, and other unexpected encounters.

What will we do with our lives, and with whom will we do it? In this story of flying and catching, Nouwen invites us all to let go and fly, even when we are afraid of falling.

About this title

About the Authors

Henri J.M. Nouwen was a world-renowned spiritual guide, counselor, and bestselling author of over forty books that many today consider spiritual classics. He taught at the universities of Harvard, Yale, and Notre Dame before becoming the senior pastor of L'Arche Daybreak in Toronto, Canada, a community where men and women with intellectual disabilities and their assistants create a home for one another.

Carolyn Whitney-Brown is a Canadian writer, speaker, illustrator and university teacher. She knew Henri Nouwen well when she and her family lived in the L'Arche Daybreak community from 1990 until Henri's death in 1996. She lives on Vancouver Island with her husband.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006311352X
• ISBN 13: 9780063113527
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256