Providence :
Quinn, Daniel.
Providence : the story of a fifty-year vision quest / Daniel Quinn. - New York : Bantam Books, 1995. - 175 p. ; 22 cm.
Autobiography written in response to the author's acclaimed novel Ishmael.
Summary:
"Providence is the record of Daniel Quinn's fascinating fifty-year voyage to a revolutionary way of seeing the world. Quinn's journey takes him from a prophetic midnight childhood dream in an Omaha boardinghouse, to a mysterious encounter in the hills of Kentucky as a young Trappist monk, to disenchantment with existing forms of organized religion, and finally to his personal rediscovery of humankind's first and only universal religion, one that is now all but forgotten. Along the way, Quinn expands on the ideas put forth in Ishmael and explores their meaning in daily life." --Book Jacket.
0553100181 9780553100181 0553375490 9780553375497
94043423
Novelists, American--Biography.--20th century
Spiritual life.
PS3567.U338 / Z47 1995
813.54 / QUP 1995
Providence : the story of a fifty-year vision quest / Daniel Quinn. - New York : Bantam Books, 1995. - 175 p. ; 22 cm.
Autobiography written in response to the author's acclaimed novel Ishmael.
Summary:
"Providence is the record of Daniel Quinn's fascinating fifty-year voyage to a revolutionary way of seeing the world. Quinn's journey takes him from a prophetic midnight childhood dream in an Omaha boardinghouse, to a mysterious encounter in the hills of Kentucky as a young Trappist monk, to disenchantment with existing forms of organized religion, and finally to his personal rediscovery of humankind's first and only universal religion, one that is now all but forgotten. Along the way, Quinn expands on the ideas put forth in Ishmael and explores their meaning in daily life." --Book Jacket.
0553100181 9780553100181 0553375490 9780553375497
94043423
Novelists, American--Biography.--20th century
Spiritual life.
PS3567.U338 / Z47 1995
813.54 / QUP 1995