A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present and True Stories of How They Touch Our Lives - Hardcover

Burnham, Sophy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345380789 ISBN 13: 9780345380784

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1992

Synopsis

Relates personal experiences of encounters with angels and examines the history and study of angels as they have been perceived by various cultures

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About the Author

Sophy Burnham has distinguished herself as a novelist, journalist, nonfiction writer and playwright. Her nonfiction credits include the bestselling A Book of Angels and Angel Letters, as well as The Landed Gentry, and her New York Times bestseller, The Art Crowd. Her novel, The Dogwalker, has been optioned for a film. Currently Project Director for New American Plays in Washington, D.C., she has written award-winning plays for stage, radio plays and documentary films. Ms. Burnham's journalism appears frequently in national magazines, including Esquire, New York, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and Redbook. She teaches at the Writers Center in Washington, D.C., where she lives.

From the Inside Flap

m did not grow up believing in miracles or angels, but when she was twenty-eight an angel miraculously saved her life. For years she hid the fact from herself. What did it mean? Are there really celestial beings watching over our lives? Later, so many powerful and inexplicable forces and coincidences affected her life that she decided to write about them, and this in turn brought her back to angels and the profound ways in which, visibly and invisibly, they touch our lives.

An instant bestseller when it was originally published, A Book of Angels tells not only the extraordinary true stories of present-day encounters with angels, but also traces the understanding and study of angels throughout history and in different cultures. Burnham writes about the powerful male angels of the Old Testament, Zoroastrian angels, Buddhist bodhisattvas, Islamic angels, Hindu apsaras, the mysterious angels of the Kabbalah, of cherubim, seraphim, guardian angels, the angel of death, and more.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0345380789
• ISBN 13: 9780345380784
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English