The Lives of the Saints

by Suzanne Paola

Book Overview

The image of the rose winds through the book, symbol of eternity and transience, gravity and folly. We find it in the ghastly bloom of the atomic bomb, in the relic of St. Therese of Lisieux, in the wool of a cloned sheep. Its image glows silently under the Waste Isolation Projects of Yucca Mountain and New Mexico, in the U.S. Human Radiation Experiments, in the altars constructed at the schoolyard gate of the Columbine massacre.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029598273X
• ISBN13: 9780295982731
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful book by a wonderful author

This is a beautifully written book that intertwines science, life and poetry. Suzanne seems to draw on her own experiences and mingle them with art. There is a great feeling of truth you get from reading this book, it's real and refreshing. Suzanne is also a wonderful speaker, words come to life like nowhere else when she reads aloud. I would recommend this book to anyone, it opens a whole new door in the world of writing.