Ebook {Epub PDF} The Blood of the Lamb by Peter De Vries

Peter De Vries has 38 books on Goodreads with ratings. Peter De Vries’s most popular book is The Blood of the Lamb. Perhaps The Blood of the Lamb is so unlike De Vries's other novels because the story is based on a tragedy that occurred in the author's own life (noted in Chapter 1, p. 3 of God, Medicine, and Suffering, by Stanley Hauerwas--see annotation in this database). The final quotation--that God need not exist to save us--comes very close to the heart of The Blood of the Lamb. The most poignant of Peter De Vries’s novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also his most personal. It follows the life of Don Wanderhop from his childhood in an immigrant Calvinist family living in Chicago in the s through the loss of a brother, his faith, his wife, and finally his daughter—a tragedy drawn directly from De Vries’s own life/5(93).

Peter De Vries. With a new Foreword by Jeffrey Frank. The most poignant of all De Vries's novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also the most autobiographical. It follows the life of Don Wanderhop from his childhood in an immigrant Calvinist family living in Chicago in the s through the loss of a brother, his faith, his wife, and finally his. Peter De Vries (), the man responsible for contributing to the cultural vernacular such witticisms as "Nostalgia ain't what it used to be" and "Deep down, he's shallow," was, according to Kingsley Amis, "the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic." But De Vries's life and work was informed as much by sorrow as by wit, and that dynamic is nowhere better seen. Peter De Vries. The Blood of the Lamb. reprinted by University of Chicago Press () p Decades before Irving's World According to Garp and its death of child, decades before Picoult's heart-breaking dilemmas, and decades before 'reality fiction,' or what I call voyeuristic nonfiction, Peter De Vries () produced this slim novel.

The most poignant of all De Vries’s novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also the most autobiographical. It follows the life of Don Wanderhop from his childhood in an immigrant Calvinist family living in Chicago in the s through the loss of a brother, his faith, his wife, and finally his daughter-a tragedy drawn directly from De Vries’s own life. Despite its foundation in misfortune, The Blood of the Lamb offers glimpses of the comic sensibility for which De Vries was famous. The main characters of The Blood of the Lamb novel are John, Emma. The book has been awarded with Booker Prize, Edgar Awards and many others. One of the Best Works of Peter De Vries. published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format for offline reading. The most poignant of Peter De Vries’s novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also his most personal. It follows the life of Don Wanderhop from his childhood in an immigrant Calvinist family living in Chicago in the s through the loss of a brother, his faith, his wife, and finally his daughter—a tragedy drawn directly from De Vries’s own life.