The Return of the Goddess: A Divine Comedy

by Elizabeth Cunningham

Book Overview

The wife of an Episcopal priest fashions an image out of clay that becomes a pagan godess, one who pits erotic love against charity, paganism against Christianity, and woman as the preserver of Earth against man as its destroyer.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088268115X
• ISBN13: 9780882681153
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The Goddess is Alive & Well!

We hadread the first book of Ms. Cunningham's new trilogy, The "Daugther of the Isles" and read it aloud & loved it!! So, wewent & found this earlier work ..which is also about spirituality & nature & the Goddess & is peopled by amazing characters. We can not reccomend it enough!!!

Great Fiction for Goddess Lovers

A wonderful novel for both people who want an introduction to the Goddess as well as those who already are faithful believers. I agree with the other reviewers who say this book is meant to be reread and reread. As a true believer, I would send this to my circle friends,but I would also feel comfortable and sharing it with friends who don't know about female centered religions.

This is my all-time favorite book.

THE RETURN OF THE GODDESS is my all-time favorite book. Author Robert Kelly called it a "celebration of how four remarkable people grow into godhood, the journal all love tries to make". I grew to love these four unforgetable characters. The story is also called "a divine comedy", and I laughed my way through it. I celebrated Esther's journey to self discovery and personal growth--and related to it--and most women can. THE RETURN OF THE GODDESS begins on Halloween night, and so I re-read it every October. The imagery--sights, sounds, smells--bring this book to life. Every time I read it, I envision this story made into a movie--it would be wonderful! Thank-you, Elizabeth Cunningham, for bringing these characters and this town to life.

The Goddess is dancing...

I love this book. I've read it so much that the pages are almost all dog eared. I've given copies of it to 6 of my friends and have loaned mine to at least five others. Elizabeth Cunningham is a fantastic storyteller and she leads us on a journey through a woman's spirit, awakening to the power of her self. It is a hard journey, but a worthwhile one, and you'll laugh all the way through until you cry at the end. Beautiful, poetic writing and outrageously funny realism combine to make this a "can't put it down 'til I'm done" kind of book. The Goddess dances across the pages and into your heart as you read it, and the book leaves you with a sense of hope and a feeling that somehow, someway, justice will always be done. Thanks, Elizabeth Cunningham, for the book that always picks me up when I'm in a low place.