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Ironic Witness

by Diane Glancy

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  • Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
  • 15 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

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A minister's wife finds herself in hell. The story of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke 16:19-31 gives a chilling insight into the afterlife. It is a story that is not often addressed because it makes clear the separation of people upon death. Frank Winscott, a retired minister, works at comparing translations of the Bible. Eugena has ignored her husband's work and his sermons all her life. Instead, she finds meaning in her potter's shed, where she makes different forms of ziggurats that she places in her kiln, a little symbol of hell. Though Eugena rejects Frank's insistence that there is a heaven and hell, she finds that she has worked with the shape of both and never knew it. In the end, she realizes that heaven and hell are in the shape of ziggurats, one rising and the other sinking. Her beloved ziggurats become the ironic witness of what her husband preached. Meanwhile, Frank and Eugena struggle to make sense of their lives after the death of their addict son, Daniel. When he is killed in a car accident, Frank and Eugena argue over whether Daniel's death was truly an accident, or whether his car may have been pushed off the road. The novel begins, ""Another letter from the afterlife, you might say. But this one starts before the afterlife and continues into it."" When Eugena dies, she travels through hell to find her son, Daniel. Frank sends the last chapter from heaven. The novel was influenced by Dante's The Divine Comedy and begins with an epigraph from The Inferno, ""What I was living, that I am dead."" Diane Glancy is Professor Emerita at Macalester College. She also has been a visiting professor at Kenyon College and Azusa Pacific University. She has published novels and collections of essays, drama, poetry, and short stories listed online at www.dianeglancy.com and www.dianeglancy.org. Among her awards are two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Minnesota Book Award, an Oklahoma Book Award, and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
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  • Title

    Ironic Witness

  • Author

    Diane Glancy

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Wipf & Stock Publishers

  • Published

    May 2015

  • Weight

    318g

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781625647443

  • ISBN-10

    1625647441

  • Eden Code

    4940710

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