Plan B Further Thoughts on Faith (Paperback)
| Author: Anne Lamott |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN-10: 1594481571
ISBN-13: 9781594481574
Sku: 31268644
Publish Date: 3/28/2006
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| With the trademark wisdom, humor, and honesty that made "Traveling Mercies" a runaway bestseller, "Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith" is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times.
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Anne Lamott is not only a notable fiction writer, she is also a deeply spiritual Christian and, politically, a staunch liberal. PLAN B is a sequel to TRAVELING MERCIES (1999). Like its predecessor, it's about a variety of issues (aging, the Bush White House, parenting), but Lamott also writes entertainingly about people--among them the minister of her church, her lively adolescent son, her friends, and her mother (who died between books). As always, Lamott comes out strongly for the values of friendship, kindness, and community--and, as usual, she's very funny.
Anne Lamott is not only a notable fiction writer, she is also a deeply spiritual Christian and, politically, a staunch liberal. PLAN B is a sequel to TRAVELING MERCIES (1999). Like its predecessor, it's about a variety of issues (aging, the Bush White House, parenting), but Lamott also writes entertainingly about people--among them the minister of her church, her lively adolescent son, her friends, and her mother (who died between books). As always, Lamott comes out strongly for the values of friendship, kindness, and community--and, as usual, she's very funny.
Author Bio
Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott's father was a writer. Her first novel, HARD LAUGHTER, published when she was only 23, is about her father's brain tumor and the surgery from which he died. A recovering alcoholic, Lamott lived in relative poverty until the publication of her fifth book, OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS--the story of her son's early years and her struggles as a single mother. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and taught at numerous writing conferences. She has also written a popular column for the on-line magazine Salon.
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Kirkus Reviews
"Funny, acerbic reflections on faith and family during George W. Bush's first administration....TRAVELING MERCIES set a very high standard, and to say that PLAN B almost gets there is still to say that it's a wonderful read Lamott's legions of fans will no doubt lap up." 01/01/2005 Publishers Weekly
"[B]etter than brilliant. This is that rare kind of book that is like having a smart, dear, crazy (in the best sense) friend walk next to us in sunlight and in the dark night of the soul." 02/07/2005 Entertainment Weekly
"Though she has some of the trappings of a New Age flake, Lamott is a ferociously smart, droll, and original writer who has been chronicling an uncommonly openhearted struggle to lead a sane and moral life, drawing judiciously from whatever traditions speak sense to her....[These pieces" read like quirky anecdotal sermons, some a little too pat, others transcendently lovely, all of them very, very funny." - Jennifer Reese 03/04/2005 New York Times Book Review
"PLAN B is vintage Lamott--the dry humor, the disarming self-loathing, the irreverence, the unshakable love of Jesus Christ....Lamott is one of the handful of contemporary Christian writers beloved by people who usually agree about very little. Evangelicals love her, as do secular feminists, anti-abortion Republicans, bisexual Naral Pro-Choice members...lots of people love Anne Lamott, because she's funny and she tells the truth, and truth and laughter are two things we need more of." - Lauren F. Winner 05/01/2005 Spirituality & Health
"Lamott practices the resurrection by finding tiny bits of hope and rebirth in her own experiences." 05/01/05
"Funny, acerbic reflections on faith and family during George W. Bush's first administration....TRAVELING MERCIES set a very high standard, and to say that PLAN B almost gets there is still to say that it's a wonderful read Lamott's legions of fans will no doubt lap up." 01/01/2005 Publishers Weekly
"[B]etter than brilliant. This is that rare kind of book that is like having a smart, dear, crazy (in the best sense) friend walk next to us in sunlight and in the dark night of the soul." 02/07/2005 Entertainment Weekly
"Though she has some of the trappings of a New Age flake, Lamott is a ferociously smart, droll, and original writer who has been chronicling an uncommonly openhearted struggle to lead a sane and moral life, drawing judiciously from whatever traditions speak sense to her....[These pieces" read like quirky anecdotal sermons, some a little too pat, others transcendently lovely, all of them very, very funny." - Jennifer Reese 03/04/2005 New York Times Book Review
"PLAN B is vintage Lamott--the dry humor, the disarming self-loathing, the irreverence, the unshakable love of Jesus Christ....Lamott is one of the handful of contemporary Christian writers beloved by people who usually agree about very little. Evangelicals love her, as do secular feminists, anti-abortion Republicans, bisexual Naral Pro-Choice members...lots of people love Anne Lamott, because she's funny and she tells the truth, and truth and laughter are two things we need more of." - Lauren F. Winner 05/01/2005 Spirituality & Health
"Lamott practices the resurrection by finding tiny bits of hope and rebirth in her own experiences." 05/01/05
