Hunting for Hope

A Father's Journeys

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On sale Sep 15, 1999 | 208 Pages | 9780807064252

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Selected as a Freshman Read — Mansfield University

After an angry confrontation with his son on a hiking trip intended to restore their relationship, Scott Sanders realizes that his own despair has darkened his son's world. In Hunting for Hope he sets out to gather his own reasons for facing the future with hope, finding powers of healing in nature, in culture, in community, in spirit, and within each of us.

“This is one of the rare books in which hope seems reasonable, and the grace and economy of the prose nourishes the parched spirit.” -Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe

“An extraordinary book by one of America’s most elegant writers. It is a veritable treasure trove of wisdom served up with love, imaginative verve, and spiritual sensitivity.” -Values and Visions Reviews Service

“Sanders has blended the essences of philosophers, teachers, poets and authors, all filtered through his own unique Midwestern heart and mind, into passionate, crystal-clear, prize-winning essays.” -James Alexander Thom, Indianapolis Star

“A small, bright arrowhead of a book: carefully hewn, piercing, balanced; betraying in its form its very substance. . . . [Sanders’s] particular, urgent voice wields that arrowhead of hope into the hearts of his children, his students, and his readers.” -GraceAnne A. DeCandido, Booklist
Scott Russell Sanders is the author of The Paradise of Bombs; Wilderness Plots: Tales About the Settlement of American Land; The Force of Spirit; and Hunting for Hope, among several other works of fiction and nonfiction. He was a distinguished professor of English literature at Indiana University until he retired in 2009. He currently lives with his wife Ruth in Bloomington, Indiana. View titles by Scott Russell Sanders

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Selected as a Freshman Read — Mansfield University

After an angry confrontation with his son on a hiking trip intended to restore their relationship, Scott Sanders realizes that his own despair has darkened his son's world. In Hunting for Hope he sets out to gather his own reasons for facing the future with hope, finding powers of healing in nature, in culture, in community, in spirit, and within each of us.

“This is one of the rare books in which hope seems reasonable, and the grace and economy of the prose nourishes the parched spirit.” -Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe

“An extraordinary book by one of America’s most elegant writers. It is a veritable treasure trove of wisdom served up with love, imaginative verve, and spiritual sensitivity.” -Values and Visions Reviews Service

“Sanders has blended the essences of philosophers, teachers, poets and authors, all filtered through his own unique Midwestern heart and mind, into passionate, crystal-clear, prize-winning essays.” -James Alexander Thom, Indianapolis Star

“A small, bright arrowhead of a book: carefully hewn, piercing, balanced; betraying in its form its very substance. . . . [Sanders’s] particular, urgent voice wields that arrowhead of hope into the hearts of his children, his students, and his readers.” -GraceAnne A. DeCandido, Booklist

Author

Scott Russell Sanders is the author of The Paradise of Bombs; Wilderness Plots: Tales About the Settlement of American Land; The Force of Spirit; and Hunting for Hope, among several other works of fiction and nonfiction. He was a distinguished professor of English literature at Indiana University until he retired in 2009. He currently lives with his wife Ruth in Bloomington, Indiana. View titles by Scott Russell Sanders

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