The Devil and Pierre Gernet

<DIV>Brilliant scholar and wordsmith David Bentley Hart turns his mind and imagination to narrative fiction in this volume <I>The Devil and Pierre Gernet</I> a thought-provoking collection of four short stories and one novella. Anticipating questions about his shift in genre Hart writes that God is no more likely (and probably a good deal less likely) to be found in theology than in poetry and fiction.<br><br>These stories -- The Devil and Pierre Gernet The House of Apollo A Voice from the Emerald World The Ivory Gate and The Other -- beguile and entrance the reader through Hart's engrossing opulent writing style and the complex characters he evokes and explores.<br><br>Often bedazzling sometimes heartbreaking and ultimately mesmerizing Hart's wide-ranging stories are united by a common thread of haunting religious and philosophical questions about this life and the next. Here is fiction to fully engage both the mind and the heart.</DIV>