The Devil and Pierre Gernet: Stories

By David Bentley Hart

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802817688
• ISBN13: 9780802817686
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"