{"product_id":"american-ghosts-isbn-9780807072653","title":"American Ghosts","description":"Celebrated novelist David Plante grew up in an isolated, French-speaking community in Providence, Rhode Island, where nuns preserved the beliefs of le grand Canada amidst the profound presence of their deep, dark God. Caught between his silent, part-Blackfoot father and his vivacious but trapped mother, Plante flees this small world, losing his belief in any god and finding the center of his life in love and in writing. Still, the ghosts of his past haunt Plante and drive him to embark on a stunning spiritual and physical journey.This wonderful book takes on what may be the hardest questions by allowing this most observant individual to see and hear in miraculous detail. How, it asks, does any person become American, let alone find a place in the breathing cathedral that is this majestic universe?--Jane Vandenburgh, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A memoir full of doubts and hesitations, a self-scouring undertaken with resolute frankness and considerable stylistic grace . . . Plante shows that origins can work on the spirit with a force as strong as gravity.\"--Sven Birkets, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A book, and a life . . . consumed with exploration and examination. It is about asking hard questions, and making hard judgments, and rummaging, mercilessly, through the hidden recesses of a mind that never rests . . . Remarkable. And memorable.\"--David M. Shribman, \u003ci\u003eToronto Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brave and touching . . . In [Plante's] new understanding of his dark heritage and his dark longings, he offers a strange, mysterious, and deeply hopeful sense of spiritual possibility.\"--Valerie Sayers, \u003ci\u003eCommonweal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As a heedful exploration of a psyche, a record of a vulnerable, likeable man's encounters with his memories, and a candid, unprotected disclosure of the wrestling between flesh and spirit, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e may be unsurpassed.\"--Ron Hansen, \u003ci\u003eAmerica\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An emotionally disturbing and spiritually exhilarating tale.\"--Sam Coale, \u003ci\u003eProvidence Journal\u003c\/i\u003eDavid Plante is the author of more than a dozen novels, including the Francoeur trilogy-\u003ci\u003eThe Family, The Woods,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Country\u003c\/i\u003e-as well as a work of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eDifficult Women: A Memoir of Three\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has appeared in many periodicals, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e among them, and has been nominated for a National Book Award. He teaches writing at Columbia University and lives in New York and London.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302672355557,"sku":"NP9780807072653","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807072653.jpg?v=1767721418","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/american-ghosts-isbn-9780807072653","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}