Secrets of the Universe: Essays on Family, Community, Spirit, and Place

by Scott Russell Sanders

Book Overview

Ranging from an autobiographical tour-de-force that describes a childhood spent with an alcoholic father to "Looking at Women," a reflection on male yearning and confusion, to a look at the place--or absence--of nature in recent American fiction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807063312
• ISBN13: 9780807063316
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A pleasure for any serious reader

I admit that this book was assigned to me in a college writing class. However, once I drunk in the words of these essays, I was challenged by Sanders to create essays of my own. The essays move outward, moving from himself and the family that is part of his life to the world that is a part of. Not only does it challenge any writer to reach the honesty that Sanders does, but this book also draws the every day Jane or Jon Doe to think about their own life and to be honest about it. A definate keeper!