About this title: Buechner explores the implications of his father's suicide on his own life and his relationship to his wife and children. He also acknowledges the healing power of facing up to tragedy, and the value of "telling secrets" as a way of coping with them.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780060611811ISBN:0060611812
Description: Good. FORMER LIBRARY BOOK. MAY HAVE COVER WEAR, SPINE CREASES, HIGHLIGHTING, UNDERLINING & PAGES YELLOWED FROM AGE. FASTER SERVICE FROM US! ! ! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Date Published: 1991-06-20
ISBN-13:9780060611811ISBN:0060611812
Description: Good. No names, no remainder marks, no stickers. Binding is tight and square. DJ is VG. Has minor highlighting. Rectangle cut out of top right corner of FFEP. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: HarperOne
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780060609368ISBN:0060609362
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine straight, binding tight, no reader/remainder/library marks, covers/pgs flat w/sharp corners, age toning pgs, minor shelf wear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 128 p. Audience: General/trade. Photos or other information available by e-mail. Daily orders/e-mail responses. E-mail confirmation of shipment. Books stored in smoke-free, climate controlled environment. Check our feedback. read more
Edition: First Edition/ First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Date Published: 1991-06-20
ISBN-13:9780060611811ISBN:0060611812
Description: New. Brand New Hardcover with Dust Jacket, binding tight, pages clean and straight, no writing anywhere, NO remainder mark, First Edition/ First Printing, full number line. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperOne
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780060609368ISBN:0060609362
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Date Published: 1992-10-01
ISBN-13:9780060609368ISBN:0060609362
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780060609368. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harper San Francisco, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780060609368ISBN:0060609362
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. With eloquence, candor, and simplicity, a celebrated author tells the story of his father's alcohol abuse and suicide and traces the influence of this secret on his life as a son, father, husband, minister, and writer. read more
Description: hbk 106pp., dj sl. shelfworn, front lower corner is slightly frayed, top of spine slightly dented (now in protective sleeve) otherwise an excellent clean tight copy read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Harpersanfrancisco, San Francisco
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780060611811ISBN:0060611812
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0060611812. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Brown cloth binding. The author' s autobiographical account of his father's alcoholism and suicide, his daughter's anorexia and his own hidden demons. Jacket price-clipped and lightly scuffed, else a clean, tight copy. In jacket protector.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; 106 pages; Signed by Author. read more
Binding: Hardcover + DJ
Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco
Date Published: 1991
Description: Very good condition, in very good dust jacket. 106 pages. Driven by the pain of his daughter's anorexia, and faced with his powerlessness over her disease, the author confronts hidden dimensions of his life. read more
Edition: 1st Edition 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins, New York, NY
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780060611811ISBN:0060611812
Description: Fine-/Fine- W/Dust Jacket 106 pages Price clipped, a few faint dust foxing specks on top page ends, front endpaper top edge, o.w. clean, tight & bright. NO ink. Names, tears, chips etc. SIGNED by author on front endpaper. ISBN 006061181 2. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperOne
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780060609368ISBN:0060609362
Description: Acceptable. BINDING LOOSE BUT INTACT, COVER IS WORN, PAGES ARE LIGHTLY TANNED, PREVIOUS OWNERS NAME AND OR INSCRIPTION WRITTEN IN FRONT OF BOOK, Good reading copy. read more
"Oh, Frederick, I think you might be my soul mate. Your writing stirs me deeply and puts words to experiences I have not been able to verbalize. I will be reading more of you!"
"Buechner's books are often so layered that it takes me several times through to catch the brilliance of it all. But brilliance it is. In a memoir, Buechner brings the reader along his journey of processing through some of the hard things in his life. He reflects on the importance of telling our stories - both for our own sakes as much as for others. He writes about the power of remembering and the idea that through remembering we can be blessed and healed (not just cursed by it). Buechner models what it might look like for each of us to tell our stories by asking us to examine our own lives - What are the secrets we are hiding and why? What keeps us locked up and afraid? His own vulnerability offers the hope that we are not alone in our mistakes, fears, secrets, and humanity. He gives us hope for freedom as we explore our own lives and tell our own stories.
"I talk about my life because if, on the one hand, hardly anything could be less important, on the other hand, hardly anything could be more important. My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours. Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I, of these stories of who we are and where we have come from the the people we have met along the way because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity... that God makes himself known to each of us most powerfully and personally.""
"In this memoir, Buechner looks at his own secrets: his father's suicide and his daughter's anorexia. I really liked the third part of the book where he talks about the role of community in a person's healing process."
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