商品簡介
A poignant, emotionally riveting, profoundly heart-felt but unsentimental love story of a father for his son--at once funny, heartbreaking, and hopeful--as the young man teaches his family "a new way to die," with wit, candor, and, always, remarkable grace.
At the book's opening, Richard Lischer's son, Adam, calls to tell his father that his melanoma has returned. A smart, charismatic young man with a promising law career, Adam seems an unlikely candidate for tragedy. That his young wife is pregnant with their first child makes the disease's return all the more devastating. Yet, despite the crushing magnitude of his diagnosis and the cruel turns the disease takes, Adam's growing weakness evokes in him an unexpected strength. In the last summer of his life, he becomes his family's (and his father's) spiritual leader. True in its every dimension, Stations of the Heart is an unforgettable testament to the power of faith and family.
作者簡介
RICHARD LISCHER holds degrees from Washington University and Concordia Seminary, and a PhD in theology from the University of London. He served in two parishes before joining the faculty of Duke Divinity School, where he has taught for more than thirty years. He is the author of many books, including Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery. He and his wife live in Orange County, North Carolina.
