Modern American Memoirs
Modern American Memoirs
“Born in New York, he attended Princeton University and Union Theological Seminary. He is an ordained Presbyterian minister and a full-time writer.
Buechner’s most recent novel is Son of Laughter (1992). His chief work consists of four novels published in the 1970s and brought together in 1979 as The Book of Bebb. Lion Country, the first in the Bebb tetralogy, was nominated for the National Book Award. In 1980, the unrelated novel Godric was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
His memoirs include ...The Sacred Journey (1982) and Now and Then (1983).
from THE SACRED JOURNEY How they do live on, those giants of our childhood, and how well they manage to take even death in their stride because although death can put an end to them right enough, it can never put an end to our relationship with them. Wherever or however else they may have come to life since, it is beyond a doubt that they live still in us. Memory is more than a looking back to a time that is no longer; it is a looking out into another kind of time altogether where everything that ever was continues not just to be, but to grow and change with the life that is in it still.MoreLess
Buechner’s most recent novel is Son of Laughter (1992). His chief work consists of four novels published in the 1970s and brought together in 1979 as The Book of Bebb. Lion Country, the first in the Bebb tetralogy, was nominated for the National Book Award. In 1980, the unrelated novel Godric was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
His memoirs include ...The Sacred Journey (1982) and Now and Then (1983).
from THE SACRED JOURNEY How they do live on, those giants of our childhood, and how well they manage to take even death in their stride because although death can put an end to them right enough, it can never put an end to our relationship with them. Wherever or however else they may have come to life since, it is beyond a doubt that they live still in us. Memory is more than a looking back to a time that is no longer; it is a looking out into another kind of time altogether where everything that ever was continues not just to be, but to grow and change with the life that is in it still.MoreLess
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