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Light While There Is Light: An American History
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A Moving, Poetic Memoir About A Family On The Fringes Of Religion And Society, This Unforgettable Story About A MotherS Destructive Search Daliance With Christian Fundamentalism Pulls The Curtain Back On The Darker Side Of American Religious Experience.Keith WaldropS Account Of His MidTwentiethCentury Midwestern Upbringing Opens A Window On A Uniquely American Landscape Of Desolation And Desire. WaldropS Mother, Central To The Book, Was A Devout Christian, Consumed With The Question Of Just What A Christian Was. Divorced From His FatherA Railway Man, A Mason, Coming And Going With The Santa Fe Railroad, Then GoneShe Moves From Place To Place And From Sect To Sect, Suffering Migraines And Speaking In Tongues, Teaching Piano, And Sinking Ever Deeper Into Apocalyptic Reveries About Tribulations Lying In Store And The Advent Of ChristS Return. Then There Are WaldropS Siblings: His Sister On The Hunt For A Husband, And His Loud, Lounging, Scapegrace Older Brothers In Search Of The Next Dollar And A Good Time, Cooking Up Scams And Leaving A Mess Behind. As For Waldrop, The Narrator Of What He Describes As A Fictional Memoir, He Looks Back At Those Days With A Peculiar Detachment Of His Own, Compassionate, Quietly Humorous At Times, In Light Of Which The Simple Facts Assume A Stark, Near Hallucinatory Clarity, While Scenes Of Life Spool By Like A Home Movie To No Sound. Neither The Joys Of Heaven Nor HellS Worst Prospects, Waldrop Writes, Provide As Forceful A Motive As The Mere Emptiness Of The World.In Light While There Is Light, Waldrop Writes In A Tradition That Extends Back To Hawthorne, Poe, And Dreiser, As He Reveals The Fear, Madness, And Destruction Lurking Behind The Makeshift And MakeBelieve Of American Life.
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