Tales of Adam
by Daniel Quinn
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Ever since the publication of Ishmael in 1992, readers have yearned for a glimpse into a dimension of spiritual revelation the author only hinted at in that and later books. Now at long last they have it in seven profound but delightfully simple tales that illuminate the world in which humans became humans. This is a world seen through animist eyes: as friendly to human life as it was to the life of gazelles, lions, lizards, mosquitos, jellyfish, and seals -- not a world in which humans show more lived like trespassers who must conquer and subdue an alien territory. It's a world in which humans have a place in the community of life -- not as rulers but as equals -- with the paths of all held together in the hand of god.This is not an ancient world or a lost world. It exists as surely today as it ever did -- for those who have eyes to see it. Tales of Adam, delightfully illustrated by Michael McCurdy, is a book that will come to be shelved alongside The Prophet, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and The Alchemist. show lessTags
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I read this book in under half an hour - only 90 pages, with illustrations and large type and margins. In any case, it's not a place to start - I can't imagine anyone who hasn't already read Ishmael or some of Quinn's other books ever picking this up and thinking "oh, hey, this book changed my life" the way that Ishmael does. I recognized large chunks of text that were lifted almost to the word and put into Story of B, where I think they're much more powerful. Still, it's a nice book to have, a compendium of near-bedtime stories that neatly sum up Daniel Quinn's worldview.
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Daniel Quinn was born in 1935 and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. He graduated from Creighton Prep and attended St. Louis University, the University of Vienna and Loyola University of Chicago. Quinn worked in educational and consumer publishing, holding editorial positions with the American Peoples Encyclopedia, the Greater Cleveland Mathematics show more Program, the Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation, Fuller and Dees Publishing and the Society for Visual Education. He is best known for his award-winning novel Ishmael (1992), which is about a gorilla able to telepathically communicate, but he has written other novels as well as short fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 2005
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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