{"product_id":"the-life-you-save-may-be-your-own-an-american-pilgrimage","title":"The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage","description":"The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God\n\nIn the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious faith was to write about them-in works that readers of all kinds could admire. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is their story-a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us.\n\nThomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O'Connor a \"Christ-haunted\" literary prodigy in Georgia; Walker Percy a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. A friend came up with a name for them-the School of the Holy Ghost-and for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read one another's books, and grappled with what one of them called a \"predicament shared in common.\"\n\nA pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story; and in The Life You Save May Be Your Own Paul Elie tells these writers' story as a pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past of Dante and Dostoevsky out into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life. It is a story of how the Catholic faith, in their vision of things, took on forms the faithful could not have anticipated. And it is a story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us make sense of our experience, about the power of literature to change-to save-our lives.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0374529213\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: PKV.0374529213.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Elie, Paul\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: A well-loved companion. Corners and cover might show a little wear, and you could find some notes or highlights. The dust jacket might be MIA, it might have been a library book and extras aren't guaranteed—but the story's all there!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aspen Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52619437375775,"sku":"PKV.0374529213.G","price":3.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0894\/0470\/3007\/files\/0374529213-0.jpg?v=1781630253","url":"https:\/\/www.aspenbookco.com\/products\/the-life-you-save-may-be-your-own-an-american-pilgrimage","provider":"Aspen Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}