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Lying Awake

Mark Salzman

3.84/5 (2580 ratings)

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Mark Salzman's Lying Awake is a finely wrought gem that plumbs the depths of one woman's soul, and in so doing raises salient questions about the power-and price-of faith.

Sister John's cloistered life of peace and prayer has been electrified by ever more frequent visions of God's radiance, leading her toward a deep religious ecstasy. Her life and writings have become examples of devotion. Yet her visions are accompanied by shattering headaches that compel Sister John to seek medical help. When her doctor tells her an illness may be responsible for her gift, Sister John faces a wrenching choice: to risk her intimate glimpses of the divine in favor of a cure, or to continue her visions with the knowledge that they might be false-and might even cost her her life.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 181 pages

Publication:: 2003

Publisher:: Bloomsbury Publishing

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0747561400

ISBN13:: 9780747561408

kindle Asin:: B000FBJF8C

Lying Awake

Mark Salzman

3.84/5 (2580 ratings)

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Mark Salzman's Lying Awake is a finely wrought gem that plumbs the depths of one woman's soul, and in so doing raises salient questions about the power-and price-of faith.

Sister John's cloistered life of peace and prayer has been electrified by ever more frequent visions of God's radiance, leading her toward a deep religious ecstasy. Her life and writings have become examples of devotion. Yet her visions are accompanied by shattering headaches that compel Sister John to seek medical help. When her doctor tells her an illness may be responsible for her gift, Sister John faces a wrenching choice: to risk her intimate glimpses of the divine in favor of a cure, or to continue her visions with the knowledge that they might be false-and might even cost her her life.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 181 pages

Publication:: 2003

Publisher:: Bloomsbury Publishing

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0747561400

ISBN13:: 9780747561408

kindle Asin:: B000FBJF8C

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