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Manufacturer: Riverhead
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Binding: Kindle Edition
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
Format: Kindle Book
Label: Riverhead
Manufacturer: Riverhead
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2007-04-11
Publisher: Riverhead
Release Date: 2007-04-11
Studio: Riverhead
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The world, community, the family, the human heart: these are the beautiful and complicated arenas in which our lives unfold. Wherever you look,-there's trouble and wonder, pain and beauty, restoration and-darkness, sometimes all at once. Yet amid the confusion, if you look carefully, in nature or in the kitchen, in ordinariness or in mystery, beyond the emotion muck we all slog through, you'll find it eventually: a path, some light to see by, moments of insight, courage, or buoyancy. In other words, grace. Anne Lamott knows and lives by this belief, most of the time. In Grace (Eventually), her brilliant new collection, she recounts the missteps, detours, and roadblocks in her walk of faith.-It's been an erratic journey, and some days go better than others.-"I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kinds of-things," she writes.- Also, "that delicate silver bells would ring to announce-grace's arrival. But no,-it's clog and slog and scotch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark." In Grace (Eventually), Lamott describes how she copes. The challenges seem alternately inconsequential and-insurmountable: the anger engendered by an obstinate carpet salesman or president; the engulfing envy at a friend's professional success; the bewilderment at discovering that a child has grown up or that a friend wants to die on his own terms - and they are also universal. Wise and irreverent, poignant and funny, Grace (Eventually) is a primer in faith, as we come to discover what it means to be fully human and alive.
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Summary: Waste of Time
Comment: I fell for the title and the cover art while browsing the $5 book table at Walgreen's. After slogging through the first part of the book, I realized the only thing this gal worships is herself. The book went into the trash.
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Summary: Grace- Eventually???
Comment: "Grace (Eventually)" is an interesting memoir of Marin County author Ann Lamott. She documents her everyday struggles of alcoholism, being a single mother, teaching the handicapped to dance, and facing mortality. Her "Thoughts on Faith" range from boring Nature meditations to more compelling ones about saving the Salinas Library.
"Grace (Eventually)" is,oddly,more thought-provoking,and controversial,when Lamott defends her two abortions (when she was an alcoholic) and euthanizing a friend with a morphine/applesauce mix. Of course, she rants against Dubya,saying that it will take millennia for the Earth to heal from his despoliation. She's most alive when she denounces Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld,and tries to have Christian charity for them. She protests on behalf of the Salinas Library, and at a peace rally--these are more lively than her watching her dog run around the Marin headlands. Politics IS her faith. In "The Born",she vividly describes chowing down on M&Ms while defending the "common sense and equality" of abortion,claiming that Roe v. Wade "righted and redeemed lives." In "At Death's Window",she is passionate in defending euthanasia.
"Grace (Eventually)" is,at its best,controversial and thought-provoking,even for those who wouldn't agree. At its worst,it's merely dull. One finds grace... eventually.
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Summary: Not what the description made it out to be....
Comment: I bought this in the airport on a long layover and threw it away 4 chapters in. What I thought would be a nice book about how everyone finds their own faith and grace, was sort of about faith, but I couldn't get past her political hatred.....who cares, this was supposed to be about finding grace, not how she hates George Bush. I found it too distracting, definitely not what I thought it would be.
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Summary: News to me!
Comment: I had never even heard of this author, but somehow...on my bookshelf, there sat "Grace Eventually". I started reading it and found that I was able to relate and experience the author's wisdom and life experiences. I have never had a child, and I admire those who have a good relationship with their offspring. The author shares her love for her son, Sam...He's a lucky guy.
The author does something rarely encountered in contemporary non-fiction, she speaks honestly about the Bush administration with a passionate intelligence that keeps the book from being just another feel good read.
I think you'll like her writing regardless of your political beliefs.
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Summary: New Lamott Fan
Comment: Grace, Eventually is my first experience with Ms. Lamott's writing and it will certainly not be the last. Her self deprecating humor struck a chord and has opened up my own writing to a new dimension.
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