{"product_id":"the-devil-and-pierre-gernet-stories-9780802817686","title":"The Devil and Pierre Gernet: Stories","description":"Brilliant scholar and wordsmith David Bentley Hart turns his mind and imagination to narrative fiction in this volume, \u003ci\u003eThe Devil and Pierre Gernet\u003c\/i\u003e, a thought-provoking collection of four short stories and one novella. Anticipating questions about his shift in genre, Hart writes that \"God is no more likely (and probably a good deal less likely) to be found in theology than in poetry and fiction.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese stories -- \"The Devil and Pierre Gernet,\" \"The House of Apollo,\" \"A Voice from the Emerald World,\" \"The Ivory Gate,\" and \"The Other\" -- beguile and entrance the reader through Hart's engrossing, opulent writing style and the complex characters he evokes and explores. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOften bedazzling, sometimes heartbreaking, and ultimately mesmerizing, Hart's wide-ranging stories are united by a common thread of haunting religious and philosophical questions about this life and the next. Here is fiction to fully engage both the mind and the heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHart, David Bentley:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eDavid Bentley Hart\u003c\/b\u003e is a philosopher, theologian, writer, and cultural commentator who has taught at the University of Virginia, Duke University, and the University of Notre Dame. His other books include \u003ci\u003eThe Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eAtheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the Michael Ramsey Prize in Theology in 2011.","brand":"William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461140254994,"sku":"9780802817686","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_58e668b1-5698-4fbb-8c4d-5215f5742f8f.jpg?v=1730057920","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-devil-and-pierre-gernet-stories-9780802817686","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}