Author
Susan Stinson
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Publisher
Small Beer Press
Published
October 2013
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Author
Susan Stinson
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Small Beer Press
Published
October 2013
£12.15
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Spider in a Tree
Today's Price £12.15
"Stinson reads the natural world as well as Scripture, searching for meaning. But instead of the portents of an angry god, what she finds there is something numinous, complicated, and radiantly human."--Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home
"Through an ardent faith in the written word Susan Stinson is a novelist who translates a mundane world into the most poetic of possibilities."--Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones
"Wonderfully fuses the historic and the imaginative."--Kenneth Minkema, executive director, Jonathan Edwards Center
Jonathan Edwards is considered America's most brilliant theologian. He was also a slave owner. This is the story of the years he spent preaching in eighteenth century Northampton, Massachusetts.
In his famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Edwards compared a person dangling a spider over a hearth to God holding a sinner over the fires of hell. Here, spiders and insects preach back. No voice drowns out all others: Leah, a young West African woman enslaved in the Edwards household; Edwards's young cousins Joseph and Elisha, whose father kills himself in fear for his soul; and Sarah, Edwards's wife, who is visited by ecstasy. Ordinary grace, human failings, and extraordinary convictions combine in unexpected ways to animate this New England tale.
Susan Stinson is the author of three novels and a collection of poetry and lyric essays and was awarded the Lambda Literary Foundation's Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize. Writer in Residence at Forbes Library in Northampton, Massachusetts, she is also an editor and writing coach.
Author
Susan Stinson
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Small Beer Press
Published
October 2013
Weight
364g
Dimensions
127 x 201 x 23 mm
ISBN
9781618730695
ISBN-10
161873069X
Eden Code
4884372
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Author/Creator: Susan Stinson
ISBN: 9781618730695
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Release Date: October 2013
Weight: 364g
Dimensions: 127 x 201 x 23 mm
Eden Code: 4884372