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02475cam a2200337Ia 4500 001 FC196984253711DF9B7CADF9A7D7520A 003 SILO 005 20100301073843 008 070307r20072006nyu b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0865477345 (pbk.) : 020 $a 9780865477346 (pbk.) : 035 $a (OCoLC)150374229 040 $a BTCTA $c BTCTA $d SILO $d BAKER $d NSB $d IMV $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS3569.A5137 $b Z47 2007 100 1 $a Sanders, Scott R. $q (Scott Russell), $d 1945- 245 1 $a A private history of awe / $c Scott Russell Sanders. 250 $a Pbk. ed. 260 $a New York : $b North Point Press, $c 2007, c 2006. 300 $a 322 p. ; $c 21 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-320). 520 $a When the author was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe, the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything. He writes, "The search for communion with this power has run like a bright thread through all my days". This book is an account of his search, told as a series of dramatic, spiritually charged episodes including his early memory of watching a fire with his father, his attraction to the solemn cadences of the Bible despite his frustration with Sunday school religion, his discovery of books and the body, his mounting opposition to the Vietnam War and all forms of violence, his decision, after the heady experience of education at Brown and Cambridge, to return to the Midwest and raise a family in the place of his roots. In many ways, this is the story of a generation's passage through the 1960s, from innocence to experience, from euphoria to disillusionment. But the author has found a language that captures the transcendence in ordinary lives in the pattern of American coming of age. By framing his recollections with present-day accounts of tending to his ailing mother and his newborn granddaughter, he weaves his story into the larger history of his family, illuminating the cycles of life that bind together generations. 600 10 $a Sanders, Scott R. $q (Scott Russell), $d 1945- 600 10 $a Sanders, Scott R. $q (Scott Russell), $d 1945- $x Family. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Awe. 941 $a 2 952 $l CUPC586 $d 20170725010401.0 952 $l O3AX572 $d 20100301073843.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FC196984253711DF9B7CADF9A7D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IMVInitiate Another SILO Locator Search