This book is a reflection on a man's life, and a message to his son. A father approaches death, reflecting on his life as a minister and the son and grandson of: ministers. He tells the story of his estrangement from his father, a pacifist, who broke from his own father, an abolitionist in Kansas after the Civil War. He writes to his own young son, the product of a late life marriage to a younger woman. The book won a pulitzer prize. It got high praises from reviewers, for its reflections on the relationships of fathers & sons. I didn't care for it, got bored as the story went nowhere.
Quotes.
"I don't know exactly what covetes is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it."
"Every single one of us is a civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable-which I hasten to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to be. We take fortuitous resemblances among us to be active likeness."
Published: 2004 Read: October 2024 Genre: Fiction, Philosophy
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