Possibility of Angels

by Sophie Biriotti

Here, exuberantly rendered in more than 60 original paintings, are heavenly creatures like none you've ever seen before. The Possibility of Angels includes works of short fiction and poetry by favourite contemporary writers, as well as traditional angel lore from the Bible, ancient Babylon, Native America, and Africa.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811815307
• ISBN13: 9780811815307
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.9" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous!

Like its sister anthology on gardens, this volume is just beautiful. The illustrations are rich and haunting, and the selection of poetry and prose both varied and fantastic. My child and I adore it!

Beautifully Done Volume

This book has beautiful illustrations, is well done and the writings are a wonderul mixture of stories, poems and myths. The works of authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Updike, Franz Kafka, Mark Twain, Sylvia Plath and Leo Tolstoy are included. It is not a book you read cover-to-cover at one sitting, but a volume you take your time reading and enjoying. I spend hours just enjoying the art work that was done by Peter Malone. It is interesting and fascinating to read how different cultures see "divine messengers". It is also thought provoking. If angels don't exist, why have so many written about them for so long?

A Wonderful Menagerie

The works anthologized for this beautiful edition are so varied any reader is sure to be inspired by at least one. Despite the wide variance of influences, each story, poem or lesson flows perfectly into the next. From the bible to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the influences span history and the globe to bring to life in the reader the real possibility of angles.