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Read Richard's amazing memoir @lt;i@gt;House of Prayer No. 2@lt;/i@gt; -- read it as soon as you can, you'll barrel through it -- and you'll know after just two pages of his effortlessly killer prose that he's special all right ... Narrating, mostly, through the best use of second-person urgency since Jay McInerney's @lt;i@gt;Bright Lights, Big City@lt;/i@gt;, he describes being a disc jockey, a deckhand, a private eye, a ditchdigger. The man can tell a full story in the flick of a phrase ... Hallelujah. @lt;b@gt;A@lt;/b@gt; @lt;br@gt;--@lt;i@gt;Entertainment Weekly@lt;br@gt;@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt; An absorbing account of growing up in the 1960s South, living with a disability, becoming a writer and finding faith. Richard's book attests to the power of words (and the Word) in shaping a life, while at the same time challenging some dearly held beliefs about memoir as a genre ... [His] special childhood results in considerable powers of observation, empathy and imagination ... Richard is a

Read Richard's amazing memoir House of Prayer No. 2 -- read it as soon as you can, you'll barrel through it -- and you'll know after just two pages of his effortlessly killer prose that he's special all right ... Narrating, mostly, through the best use of second-person urgency since Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, he describes being a disc jockey, a deckhand, a private eye, a ditchdigger. The man can tell a full story in the flick of a phrase ... Hallelujah. A <br>-- Entertainment Weekly<br> <br> An absorbing account of growing up in the 1960s South, living with a disability, becoming a writer and finding faith. Richard's book attests to the power of words (and the Word) in shaping a life, while at the same time challenging some dearly held beliefs about memoir as a genre ... [His] special childhood results in considerable powers of observation, empathy and imagination ... Richard is a fiercely gifted writer. <br>-- The New York Times Book Review<br> <br> Deploying the se

An absorbing account of growing up in the 1960s South, living with a disability, becoming a writer and finding faith. Richard's book attests to the power of words (and the Word) in shaping a life, while at the same time challenging some dearly held beliefs about memoir as a genre ... [His] special childhood results in considerable powers of observation, empathy and imagination ... Richard is a fiercely gifted writer. @lt;br@gt;--@lt;i@gt;The New York Times Book Review@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; Mark Richard's memoir, @lt;i@gt;House of Prayer No.2@lt;/i@gt;, is the finest book he's ever written. No one writes like him. His prose style is both hammerblow and shrapnel. He has written the book of his life. @lt;br@gt;--Pat Conroy@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; Hot damn! And Glory be! Both. This is a wonderful book. @lt;br@gt;--Roy Blount, Jr.@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; The precision of the descriptions is marvelous in this memoir of growing up with infirmity. The depth of Richard's heart is profound, exh

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