Susan S. Neville

Iconography: A Writer's Meditation

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When Susan Neville enrolls in an icon-painting class in the cellar of an Indianapolis monastery, she begins a journey into a fascinating hidden world where saints are fabricated of mineral and wood, yolk and blood, earth and time. The process is tedious, and she begins to make mistakes, to become impatient; she doesn't feel ready for the challenge. To prepare herself, Neville makes a vow to write during the 40 days of Lent. What emerges is a journal, a meditation, a series of confessions that we are invited to listen to as we follow Neville's sometimes painful attempts to reveal the truth and discover the mystery of her existence. In the laye… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-253-21614-4
EAN: 9780253216144
Produktnummer: 9339347
Verlag: Indiana Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Masse: H21.7 cm x B13.5 cm x D1.7 cm 295 g
Gewicht: 295
Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.

Über den Autor

Susan Neville is the author of five collections of creative nonfiction and fiction, including Fabrication; Invention of Flight, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction; and Indiana Winter (IUP, 1994). She teaches creative writing at Butler University and is on the faculty of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.