shopping cart
Save up to 30% on our Staff Picks
Call us:  800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Interviews | November 3, 2009

Sheila A.: IMG On Storytelling: The Powells.com Interview with Donald Miller



donaldmillerDonald Miller is a Christian writer, but the question that Miller asks with his latest memoir, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, is applicable to... Continue »
  1. $13.99 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

Ships free on qualified orders.
Add to Cart
$10.95
List price: $15.95
Used Trade Paper
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
Qty Store Section
2 Burnside American Studies- General
1 Hawthorne Health and Medicine- Death and Dying

More copies of this ISBN:

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith

by Studs Terkel

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

In Terkel's powerful new book a wide range of people address that final experience and its impact on the present in which they live. In talking about the ultimate and unknowable culmination of life, these people give voice to their deepest beliefs and hopes, reflecting on the lives they have led and what still lies before them.

Synopsis:

IT'S THE UNGUARDED VOICES HE PRESENTS THAT STAY WITH YOU. . . . Terkel's interviews may not allay fears about death. But reading them certainly encourages life while we have it.

-The New York Times

Whether it's Working or The Great War, the legendary oral histories of Studs Terkel have offered indispensable insights into all areas of American life. Now, at eighty-eight, the Pulitzer Prize winner creates his most important work on a subject few can comfortably discuss: death.

Here, in the voices of people both esteemed and unknown, are wise words, meaningful memories, and compassionate predictions about the experience of life's end-and what may come after. A grad student explains how her two-year coma convinced her of the existence of reincarnation . . . A Hiroshima survivor reconciles her painful memories with the stoicism of her Japanese culture . . . Actress Uta Hagan expresses how her art is her religion and will be her legacy . . . Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler relives his World War II ordeal, after a torpedo left him in a lifeboat among injured and dying comrades . . . An AIDS counselor reveals why healthy gay men may require the most crucial psychological help . . . and a retired firefighter admits he never felt so alive as when he was doing his dangerous job.

From the sheer physical facts to the emotional realities to spiritual speculations, all aspects of death are openly expressed in this wonderful work, the stirring culmination of Studs Terkel's brilliant career.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780345451200
Subtitle:
Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith
Author:
Terkel, Studs
Publisher:
Ballantine Books
Subject:
Death
Subject:
Death, Grief, Bereavement
Subject:
Sociology of Religion
Subject:
Religious aspects
Subject:
Death / Grief / Consolation
Subject:
Death & Dying
Publication Date:
November 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
448
Dimensions:
827x548x95 81

Other books you might like

  1. $9.98 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  2. $13.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  3. $14.50 Used Hardcover add to wish list
  4. $9.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  5. $8.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  6. $8.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

Related Aisles

  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.