Only the Heart Knows How to Find Them: Precious Memories for a Faithless Time

by Christopher de Vinck

Book Overview

Previously published in Reader's Digest, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, de Vinck's essays have attracted fans from Madeleine L'Engle to Jim Trelease. Only the Heart Knows How to Find... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670838764
• ISBN13: 9780670838769
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful collection of essays -- don't miss it!

I could not disagree more with the cynical, pseudo-intellectual author of the Kirkus Review of this wonderful book. OF COURSE Mr. De Vinck's essays do not "accurately" depict the harsher realities of childhood -- that is not his objective. The essays read more like fairy tales for adults, spun out of the simple stuff of everyday life -- the small, insignificant events that each of us, no matter how dreadful our childhoods were, still remember and from which we can gain strength and understanding as adults. This book will always have a prominent place on my bookshelf, and I find myself turning to it again and again, whenever I need to be reminded of the important things in life. I highly recommend it, as well as Mr. De Vinck's other books.