Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything - Hardcover

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1455585904 ISBN 13: 9781455585908

Publisher: Twelve, 2014

Synopsis

From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Nickel and Dimed" comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist, and advocate for social justice. In LIVING WITH A WILD GOD, she recounts her quest-beginning in childhood-to find "the Truth" about the universe and everything else: What's really going on? Why are we here? In middle age, she rediscovered the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence, which records an event so strange, so cataclysmic, that she had never, in all the intervening years, written or spoken about it to anyone. It was the kind of event that people call a "mystical experience"-and, to a steadfast atheist and rationalist, nothing less than shattering. In LIVING WITH A WILD GOD, Ehrenreich reconstructs her childhood mission, bringing an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's impassioned obsession with the questions that, at one point or another, torment us all. The result is both deeply personal and cosmically sweeping-a searing memoir and a profound reflection on science, religion, and the human condition. With her signature combination of intellectual rigor and uninhibited imagination, Ehrenreich offers a true literary achievement-a work that has the power not only to entertain but amaze.

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Review:

PRAISE FOR BARBARA EHRENREICH "One of today's most original writers." ""New York Times"""

"Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul." "Molly Ivins""

"Ehrenreich is passionate, public, hotly lucid, and politically engaged." ""Chicago Tribune"""

"Ehrenreich's scorn withers, her humor stings, and her radical light shines on." ""Boston Globe"""

"Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four." "Diane Sawyer""

PRAISE FOR LIVING WITH A WILD GOD"[Ehrenreich] resolutely avoids rhetoric in that 'blubbery vein'--which is why her book is such a rare feat...She struggles to make sense of the epiphany without recourse to the 'verbal hand-wavings about mystery and transcendence' that go with the territory... Ehrenreich has no interest in conversion...She wants, and inspires, open minds." ""The Atlantic"""

PRAISE FOR BARBARA EHRENREICH

"One of today's most original writers." ""New York Times"""

"A smart and enjoyable read... Ehrenreich maintains a grip on a sensible skepticism about religious matters - and a positive hostility toward the idea of unthinking faith - while avoiding the narrow-minded excesses that more zealous atheists sometimes fall victim to." ""The Chicago Tribune"""

"Ehrenreich has always been an intellectual and a journalistic badass... [She] ultimately arrives at a truce with the idea of God. You'll admire her journey."
""Entertainment Weekly"""

"[Ehrenreich] resolutely avoids rhetoric in that 'blubbery vein'--which is why her book is such a rare feat...She struggles to make sense of the epiphany without recourse to the 'verbal hand-wavings about mystery and transcendence' that go with the territory... Ehrenreich has no interest in conversion...She wants, and inspires, open minds." ""The Atlantic"""

About the Author:

BARBARA EHRENREICH is the author of fourteen books, including the bestselling Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. She lives in Virginia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Twelve
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1455585904
• ISBN 13: 9781455585908
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352