Description: "As everyone knows, the bond between homo sapiens sapiens and canis lupus familiaris has traversed the ages. But few could have anticipated the remarkable exchange here recounted between David Bentley Hart and a noble beast named Roland. Roland in Moonlight breaks new ground within Hart's already astonishingly wide-ranging body of work. Eschewing the rigidity of the human either/or, Roland's diagonal approach offers secret illuminations and hidden affinities, as all and sundry come into his purview: paganism, dreams, language, myth, politics, American Christianity, Indian metaphysics, Japanese aesthetics ... But perhaps most of all, the book is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the nature of mind and consciousness. Woven through all this is a candid memoir, a story of loss and recovery, of personal trials and tribulations, with Roland"--
Brief description: DAVID BENTLEY HART writes upon too many topics (religion, philosophy, the arts, culture...) and in too many genres (essays, fiction, monographs, satires, screeds...) and lives in hiding, beside a garden. ROLAND W. HART is a dog and an altogether mysterious and magical presence in this fallen world. He lives beside the same garden.