Description:
A lively and wide-ranging collection from David Bentley Hart, A Gathering of Leaves invites readers to rediscover the sheer joy of reading.
David Bentley Hart brings together reflections on everything from literature and music to baseball and tortoises in his newest book. The pieces roam freely in subject and tone--sometimes serious, sometimes playful--but are united by Hart's distinctive voice: witty, attentive, and unafraid of digression.
Rather than advancing a single argument or theme, Hart lets each essay follow its own path. Short notes sit alongside longer meditations; close readings give way to cultural commentary or unexpected enthusiasms. Hart focuses on the joys of style, observation, and thought in motion. A Gathering of Leaves is a book for readers who enjoy the art of the word--writing that informs and entertains, wanders and returns, and reminds us why reading itself remains a pleasure.
Brief description:
David Bentley Hart is a writer, religious studies scholar, philosopher, cultural commentator, and writer of fiction. He is the author and translator of twenty-three books, including the award-winning You Are Gods.
Review Quotes:
"David Bentley Hart is a great essayist. He is a belle-lettrist in the old-fashioned sense, but at the same time a contemporary thinker and writer of real consequence. He is possessed of immense reading in a wide variety of areas, and he has the capacity to get to the root of the matter without wasting time. I regard him as one of the most important intellectuals of our era and someone whose work is of real and lasting significance. This is an important book, one that deserves the widest possible audience." --Henry Weinfield, author of An Alphabet