Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
iv, 305 pages ; 22 cm |
Summary |
"In his famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards compared a person dangling a spider over a hearth to God holding a sinner over the fires of hell. Here, spiders and insects preach back. No voice drowns out all others: Leah, a young West African woman enslaved in the Edwards household; Edwards's young cousins Joseph and Elisha, whose father kills himself in fear for his soul; and Sarah, Edwards' wife, who is visited by ecstasy. Ordinary grace, human failings, and extraordinary convictions combine in unexpected ways to animate this New England tale"-- Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758 -- Fiction.
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Preaching -- Fiction.
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Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.
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Northampton (Mass.) -- History -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Biographical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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ISBN |
9781618730695 paperback |
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161873069X paperback |
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