The Fire of Your Life: A Solitude Shared

By Maggie Ross

Book Overview

Now in a completely revised edition, these keen insights of a celebrated solitary reveal the meeting place with God to be our inevitable solitude. Ross reminds us of Flannery O'Connor and Annie Dillard. All three have an abiding sense of the sacred amid the drift of contemporary life.--Thomas Berry. Available now.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060670231
• ISBN13: 9780060670238
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Keep It Handy

You don't want to read this book once and then put it on the back shelf. I've read mine several times and found myself reaching for it again recently. There's more here than meets the eye.

Astonishing and quirky primer for the soul

This book is the literary equivalent of walking the labyrinth for the first time. For whatever reason you might have picked it up, it will challenge and surprise you. Discard any notions about Vitamin spirituality, i.e. "Reading this will be good for me so I might as well choke down a chapter a day." This is not a comfy-cozy book, it is about ways of encountering the Living God, with the upheaval that would necessarily entail. Maggie Ross is a gifted writer, and is blessedly free of any taint of preachiness, or, for that matter, much predictability. She takes God seriously, without taking herself (or the rest of us) too much so. This book is a joy and a puzzle and I highly recommend it.