{"product_id":"the-devil-and-pierre-gernet-stories-paperback","title":"The Devil and Pierre Gernet: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Bentley Hart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliant scholar and wordsmith David Bentley Hart turns his mind and imagination to narrative fiction in this volume, \u003ci\u003eThe Devil and Pierre Gernet\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOften 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.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53054112366816,"sku":"9780802817686","price":35.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/KCx66iTkkX9780802817686.webp?v=1781292540","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-devil-and-pierre-gernet-stories-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}