The life you save may be your own : an American pilgrimage
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
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Book
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xiii, 554 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-534) and index.
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This volume chronicles the influences, writing struggles and religious imagination at work in four American writers -- Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day. All of them were Catholic, and all of them flourished over the roughly 30- or 40-year period from the 1930's through the 60's that is sometimes called ''the Catholic moment'' in America. Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Day was the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; O'Connor was a "Christ-haunted" literary prodigy in Georgia; Percy was a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. The author draws comparisons between their backgrounds, temperaments, circumstances and words, he reveals "four like-minded writers" whose work took the shape of a movement. Though they produced no manifesto they were unified as pilgrims moving toward the same destination while taking different paths.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Elie, P. (2003). The life you save may be your own: an American pilgrimage (First edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Elie, Paul, 1965-. 2003. The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Elie, Paul, 1965-. The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

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Elie, Paul. The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage First edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

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