Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest by Daniel Quinn

Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest



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Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest Daniel Quinn
Language: English
Page: 240
Format: lit
ISBN: 0553375490, 9780553375497
Publisher: Bantam

From Publishers Weekly

Quinn's novel Ishmael, a cult favorite, elaborated an ecologically sound mythology for our time and won a Ted Turner award for fiction that offers solutions to global problems. In this windy, slow-moving memoir, Quinn summarizes Ishmael's vision of the universe, upholding the spirit-worship practiced by animist peoples as a viable alternative to Christianity and Judaism, religions he views as largely irrelevant. He tells how, as a 19-year-old Trappist novice in Kentucky, he received encouragement from a golden-headed guardian angel but was then ordered to leave the Gethsemani monastery by Thomas Merton, his spiritual director. Then came psychoanalysis in Chicago, a marriage whose failure he blamed on his sexual inadequacies, divorce and a successful career in educational publishing. Quinn's trajectory from "fundamentalist Roman Catholic" to animist marks an unusual odyssey.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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edition.

From Library Journal

Quinn's novel Ishmael (LJ 12/91) won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for fiction, which offers solutions for global problems; the book has since garnered a large and devoted following. Providence is Quinn's spiritual autobiography, rendered as a conversation with one of his followers. He uses the events of his life to frame a discussion of religion, history, and education. Quinn relates his search for a unifying vision, beginning with a dream he had as a child and culminating with the ideas expressed in Ishmael. He describes his evolution from a novice Trappist monk under the direction of Thomas Merton to a modern animist prophet. Although Quinn writes with precision and clarity, the conversational tone weakens his exposition. Still, his point of view deserves attention. Libraries where there is interest in Ishmael will want this book.
Wendy Knickerbocker, Rhode Island Coll. Lib., Providence
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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