My Life in Seventeen Books: A Literary Memoir by Sweeney, Jon M.
My Life in Seventeen Books: A Literary Memoir by Sweeney, Jon M.

My Life in Seventeen Books: A Literary Memoir

A memoir for the bookish-inclined, using personal stories to demonstrate how books have a magical way to...
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Author: Jon M. Sweeney
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Language: English
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My Life in Seventeen Books: A Literary Memoir by Sweeney, Jon M.

My Life in Seventeen Books: A Literary Memoir

$52.10
My Life in Seventeen Books: A Literary Memoir by Sweeney, Jon M.

My Life in Seventeen Books: A Literary Memoir

$52.10
Author: Jon M. Sweeney
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A memoir for the bookish-inclined, using personal stories to demonstrate how books have a magical way to move a person from one stage of life to the next."This is a small gem of a book, tender, humble, loving. --Mary Gordon"Sweeney makes a charming companion, telling stories in joyful reflection." --Jeff Deutsch, author of In Praise of Good BookstoresFormer bookseller, longtime publisher and author Jon M. Sweeney shows--with history and anecdotes centering around books such as Thoreau's Journal, Tagore's Gitanjali, Martin Buber's Hasidic Tales, and Tolstoy's Twenty-three Tales--what it means to be carried by a book. He explores the discovery that once accompanied finding books, and books finding us. He ponders the smell of an old volume, its heft, and why bibliophiles carry them around even without reading them. He demonstrates how and why there is magic and enchantment that takes place between people and books.

Author: Jon M. Sweeney
Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing
Published: 05/07/2024
Pages: 180
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781958972311


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Foreword 04/25/2024

About the Author
Jon M. Sweeney is an award-winning author who has been interviewed in the Dallas Morning News and The Irish Catholic, and on television at CBS Saturday Morning. His book, The Pope Who Quit, (Doubleday/Image) was optioned by HBO. He is also author of forty other books on spirituality, mysticism, and religion, including Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart, with Mark S. Burrows (Hampton Roads), the biography Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Catechist, Saint (Liturgical Press), and Thomas Merton: An Introduction to His Life and Practices (St. Martin's Essentials and Penguin Random House Audio, 2021).His bookish reputation is nothing new. In 2014, Publishers Weekly featured Jon in an interview titled, "A Life in Books and On the Move." He began the 1990s as a theological bookseller in Cambridge, and ended the decade founding a multifaith publishing house, SkyLight Paths Publishing, in Vermont. He's worked in books and publishing ever since. Today he writes, reviews, edits, and recommends books, speaks regularly at literary and religious conferences, is a Catholic married to a rabbi, and is active on social media (Twitter @jonmsweeney; Facebook jonmsweeney). Sweeney lives in the Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee.
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