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Product Description: Did you know that fatal gun mishaps have been so common in America that for centuries, newspapers carried regular columns reporting on âmelancholy accidentsâ?It came as a surprising discovery when, while conducting research that involved reading colonial-era newspapers, acclaimed writer Peter Manseau stumbled upon one report after another of âmelancholy accidentsââinstances of local people accidentally discharging firearms to disastrous results...read more
Hardcover:
9781612195063 | Melville Pub House, March 29, 2016, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Did you know that fatal gun mishaps have been so common in America that for centuries, newspapers carried regular columns reporting on âmelancholy accidentsâ?
Hardcover:
9780316100038 | Little Brown & Co, January 27, 2015, cover price $28.00
A fascinating, intelligent, and sometimes funny tour of the human relics at the root of the worldâs major religionsBy examining relicsâthe bits and pieces of long-dead saints at the heart of nearly all religious traditionsâPeter Manseau delivers a book about life, and about faith and how it is sustained. The result of wide travel and the authorâs own deep curiosity, filled with true tales of the living and dubious legends of the dead, Rag and Bone tells of a California seeker who ended up in a Jerusalem convent because of a nunâs disembodied hand; a French forensics expert who travels on the metro with the rib of a saint; two young brothers who collect tickets at a Syrian mosque, studying English beside a hair from the Prophet Muhammadâs beard; and many other stories, myths, and peculiar histories.With these, and an array of other digits, limbs, and bones, Manseau provides a respectful, witty, informed, inquisitive, thoughtful, and fascinating look into the "primordial strangeness that is at the heart of belief," and the place where the abstractions of faith meet the realities of physical objects, of rags and bones.
Hardcover:
9780805086522 | 1 edition (Henry Holt & Co, March 31, 2009), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A fascinating, intelligent, and sometimes funny tour of the human relics at the root of the worldâs major religionsBy examining relicsâthe bits and pieces of long-dead saints at the heart of nearly all religious traditionsâPeter Manseau delivers a book about life, and about faith and how it is sustained.
Paperback:
9780805091472 | Griffin, March 2, 2010, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: âPeter Manseauâs Rag and Bone reads like a novel, entertains like a television docudrama, and educates like the best college professor you ever had.
Miscellaneous:
9781429936651 | 1 edition (Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 2010), cover price $9.99
Paperback:
9780807077399 | Beacon Pr, July 1, 2009, cover price $16.00
Product Description: In this acclaimed fiction debut, "a rich, often ironic homage to Yiddish culture and language" (Publishers Weekly), Peter Manseau weaves 100 years of Jewish history, the sad fate of an ancient language, and a love story shaped by destiny into a truly great American novel...read more
Hardcover:
9781847373120 | Gardners Books, February 2, 2009, cover price $27.05 | About this edition: In this acclaimed fiction debut, "a rich, often ironic homage to Yiddish culture and language" (Publishers Weekly), Peter Manseau weaves 100 years of Jewish history, the sad fate of an ancient language, and a love story shaped by destiny into a truly great American novel.
9781416538707 | Free Pr, September 9, 2008, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In this acclaimed fiction debut, "a rich, often ironic homage to Yiddish culture and language" (Publishers Weekly), Peter Manseau weaves 100 years of Jewish history, the sad fate of an ancient language, and a love story shaped by destiny into a truly great American novel.
Paperback:
9781416538714 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, June 9, 2009), cover price $16.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9781400131976 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, December 30, 2005), cover price $75.99 | About this edition: The son of a former priest and nun documents his life, describing his childhood in mid-twentieth-century Boston and a family life spent ministering to the inner-city poor.
Profiling mid-twentieth-century Boston as a time in which devout families routinely provided children for a life of religious service to the Catholic church, the son of a former priest and nun describes how his parents met while ministering to the inner-city poor and fought to continue serving in the priesthood after their marriage. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9780743249072 | Free Pr, October 12, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The son of a former priest and nun documents his life, describing his childhood in mid-twentieth-century Boston and a family life spent ministering to the inner-city poor.
Paperback:
9780743249089 | Free Pr, October 17, 2006, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Profiling mid-twentieth-century Boston as a time in which devout families routinely provided children for a life of religious service to the Catholic church, the son of a former priest and nun describes how his parents met while ministering to the inner-city poor and fought to continue serving in the priesthood after their marriage.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781400101979 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, January 15, 2006), cover price $37.99 | About this edition: The 1950s was a boom time for the Catholic Church in America, with large families of devout members providing at least one son or daughter for a life of religious service.
9781400151974 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, January 15, 2006), cover price $22.99 | About this edition: The son of a former priest and nun documents his life, describing his childhood in mid-twentieth-century Boston and a family life spent ministering to the inner-city poor.
Provides a thought-provoking account of the authors' spiritual odyssey across America, drawing on the work of some today's most influential writers--A. L. Kennedy, Rick Moody, Francine Prose, Peter Trachtenberg, and Haven Kimmell--to rework the Bible to make it relevant to modern-day faith. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9780743232760 | Free Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Provides an account of the authors' spiritual odyssey across America, drawing on the work of such influential writers as A.
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9780743232777 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, September 28, 2004), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Provides a thought-provoking account of the authors' spiritual odyssey across America, drawing on the work of some today's most influential writers--A.
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