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Grace (Eventually)

Thoughts on Faith

by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird by Bird, Hallelujah Anyway, and Almost Everything

"Lamott has chronicled her wacky and (sometimes) wild adventures in faith in...the wonderful Grace (Eventually)." (Chicago Sun-Times)
In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, the author of the bestsellers Traveling Mercies and Plan B delivers a poignant, funny, and bittersweet primer of faith, as we come to discover what it means to be fully alive.

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  • Release date

    March 20, 2007

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415938089
      • File size: 156118 KB
      • Duration: 05:25:14

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Listening to Anne Lamott is like sitting across from a close friend as she shares intimate details of her life in clear, pleasing vocal tones. Lamott uses careful pacing and understatement to present her views on faith, which include ideas about personal "missteps, detours, and roadblocks." At times, her voice fills with grit and sorrow as she reminisces about her years of being an alcoholic. Then her voice almost bubbles as she makes self-deprecating jokes about aging and her body image. The listener will feel her sadness and pain but will also join in with her laughter at her eccentric life. Her conversational vocal style and intriguing discussion of personal faith will engage and hold listeners' interest. G.D.W. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 29, 2007
      It would be easy to mistake this book for more of the same. Like Lamott's earlier spiritual nonfiction, Traveling Mercies
      and Plan B
      , it's a collection of essays, mostly previously published. The three books have strikingly similar covers and nearly identical subtitles. The familiar topics are here—Mom; her son, illness; death; addictions; Jesus; Republicans—as is the zany attitude. Not that repetitiveness matters; Lamott's faithful fans would line up to buy her shopping lists. But these recent essays show a new mellowness: "I don't hate anyone right now, not even George W. Bush. This may seem an impossibility, but it is true, and indicates the presence of grace or dementia, or both." With gentle wisdom refining her signature humor, Lamott explores helpfulness, decency, love and especially forgiveness. She explains the change: "Sometimes I act just as juvenile as I ever did, but as I get older, I do it for shorter periods of time. I find my way back to the path sooner, where there is always one last resort: get a glass of water and call a friend." Here's hoping that grace eventually persuades this older, wiser Lamott that her next nonfiction book should be wholly original.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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