Conversations with American Writers: The Doubt, the Faith, the In-Between. By Dale Brown
Abouta decade ago, I walked into my local Family Christian Store®. This US chain's website claims to represent ‘the largest brand in the Christian retailing market,’ and I was curious about its literary wares. After a half an hour in the fiction section—in which themes of apocalypse, sexual pur...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2009
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| In: |
Literature and theology
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 464-466 |
| Review of: | Conversations with American writers (Grand Rapids, Mich. [u.a.]: Eerdmans, 2008) (Hamner, Everett)
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| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | Abouta decade ago, I walked into my local Family Christian Store®. This US chain's website claims to represent ‘the largest brand in the Christian retailing market,’ and I was curious about its literary wares. After a half an hour in the fiction section—in which themes of apocalypse, sexual purity and political insularity figured heavily—I carried a book entitled something like The Satanic Origins of Harry Potter to the front desk. Upon politely inquiring as to criteria by which books were selected, I was told with equal politeness, ‘whatever sells’., Herein lies the apparent dilemma for US novelists like many featured in Dale Brown's most recent book of interviews, Conversations with American Writers—which might just as well be subtitled, The Inseparability of Faith and Doubt. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frp035 |
