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A Spiritual Autobiography
Viking
October 2013
On Sale: October 3, 2013
256 pages
ISBN: 0670025305
EAN: 9780670025305
Kindle: B00C1N96QS
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Non-Fiction Memoir
An award–winning writer delivers a major reckoning with
religion, place, and sexuality in the aftermath of
9/11
Hailed in The Washington Post as
“one of the most eloquent and probing public intellectuals
in America,” Richard Rodriguez now considers religious
violence worldwide, growing public atheism in the West, and
his own mortality.
Rodriguez’s stylish new
memoir—the first book in a decade from the Pulitzer Prize
finalist—moves from Jerusalem to Silicon Valley, from Moses
to Liberace, from Lance Armstrong to Mother Teresa.
Rodriguez is a homosexual who writes with love of the
religions of the desert that exclude him. He is a
passionate, unorthodox Christian who is always mindful of
his relationship to Judaism and Islam because of a shared
belief in the God who revealed himself within an ecology of
emptiness. And at the center of this book is a consideration
of women—their importance to Rodriguez’s spiritual formation
and their centrality to the future of the desert
religions.
Only a mind as elastic and refined as
Rodriguez’s could bind these threads together into this
wonderfully complex tapestry.
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