The Devil and Pierre Gernet

Brilliant scholar and wordsmith David Bentley Hart turns his mind and imagination to narrative fiction in this volume, The Devil and Pierre Gernet, a thought-provoking collection of four short stories and one novella. Anticipating questions about his shift in genre, Hart writes that God is no more likely (and probably a good deal less likely) to be found in theology than in poetry and fiction.

These stories -- The Devil and Pierre Gernet, The House of Apollo, A Voice from the Emerald World, The Ivory Gate, and The Other -- beguile and entrance the reader through Hart's engrossing, opulent writing style and the complex characters he evokes and explores.

Often bedazzling, sometimes heartbreaking, and ultimately mesmerizing, Hart's wide-ranging stories are united by a common thread of haunting religious and philosophical questions about this life and the next. Here is fiction to fully engage both the mind and the heart.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 02/28/2012
ISBN: 9780802817686
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Books & Culture 07/01/2013 pg. 22