Book description
The “genre” of the modern Gnostic novel encompasses an especially eclectic range of works. With this book—a fantasy by turns dark, absurd, comic, frantic, and lyrical—David Bentley Hart joins a company that includes figures as diverse as Georges Bernanos, Anatole France, David Lindsay, Philip K. Dick, Patrick White, Umberto Eco,…
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1 author picked Kenogaia (A Gnostic Tale) as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Writing for "young adults" is fraught with difficulty. Are they children who think like grown-ups or borderline adults with children's taste? Bentley Hart evades the problem by writing a book that neither talks down to nor seeks to educate his potential readers, instead treating them with respect and assuming that they will find what he does interesting. Which in the case of my teenage daughter proved correct; the story was fantastical and the characters completely relatable.
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