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House of Prayer No. 2 by Mark Richard audiobook

House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home

By Mark Richard
Read by Mark Richard

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6.58 Hours • Unabridged
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Award-winning author Mark Richard delivers a fascinating and unique memoir. Born in the South with deformed hips, Richard was tagged a "special" child. Nothing was expected of him. But as a young man, he decided to strike out and experience as much of our strange world as he possibly could. "No one writes like him. His prose style is both hammerblow and shrapnel. He has written the book of his life."-Pat Conroy

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Winner of the 2012 Pushcart Prize

Selected for the March 2011 Indie Next List

Award-winning author Mark Richard delivers a fascinating and unique memoir. Born in the South with deformed hips, Richard was tagged a "special" child. Nothing was expected of him. But as a young man, he decided to strike out and experience as much of our strange world as he possibly could. "No one writes like him. His prose style is both hammerblow and shrapnel. He has written the book of his life."-Pat Conroy

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Editorial Reviews

“A surprising page turner…Richard’s prose is gorgeous—and hits with a force that sometimes stuns…Where other memoirists—evangelical and/or literary—just bluff and brag, he makes art.” —Christian Science Monitor
“Richard captures what is often misunderstood about the Southerner’s intimate parlay with God. Appearances to the contrary, it is not about certainty…A fascinating journey.” —Oregonian
“Supremely animated…[Richard’s] spiritual journey, conducted in fits and starts and finally claimed in gorgeous hosannas of prose, forms the book’s narrative DNA.” — Elle
“No one writes like him. His prose style is both hammer blow and shrapnel. He has written the book of his life.” —Pat Conroy
“A lyrical distillation of observations from Richard’s boyhood in and out of southern charity hospitals to his becoming a writer and father in search of faith.” —Vanity Fair
“An absorbing account of growing up in the 1960s South, living with a disability, becoming a writer and finding faith. Richard’s book attests to the power of words (and the Word) in shaping a life…[His] special childhood results in considerable powers of observation, empathy, and imagination.” —New York Times Book Review

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Author Bio: Mark Richard

Author Bio: Mark Richard

Mark Richard was born in Manhattan and grew up surrounded by potato fields, clams, and bluefish on eastern Long Island. After a year at the University of Freiburg in Germany with brief sojourns in Rome, Paris, and Lille, he returned to the United States and became a substitute teacher in the Boston Public School system. Shortly thereafter, while at UMass-Amherst, meaning to study political philosophy, he was seduced by the philosophy of language and linguistics. He was a professor in the philosophy department at Harvard before attaining his current position as professor and chair of philosophy at Tufts University.

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Available Formats : CD, MP3 CD
Runtime: 6.58
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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