In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me about Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love

Author:   Joseph Luzzi (Bard College, USA) ,  Rick Adamson
Publisher:   HarperCollins
Edition:   Library Edition
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9781504611527


Publication Date:   26 May 2015
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"In the aftermath of a heartbreaking tragedy, a scholar and writer uses Dante's Divine Comedy to shepherd him through the dark wood of grief and mourning--a rich and emotionally resonant memoir of suffering, hope, love, and the power of literature to inspire and heal the most devastating loss. Where do we turn when we lose everything? Joseph Luzzi found the answer in the opening of The Divine Comedy: ""In the middle of our life's journey, I found myself in a dark wood."" When Luzzi's pregnant wife was in a car accident--and died forty-five minutes after giving birth to their daughter, Isabel--he finds himself a widower and first-time father at the same moment. While he grieves and cares for his infant daughter, miraculously delivered by caesarean before his wife passed, he turns to Dante's Divine Comedy for solace. In a Dark Wood tells the story of how Dante helps the author rebuild his life. He follows the structure of The Divine Comedy, recounting the Inferno of his grief, the Purgatory of healing and raising Isabel on his own, and then Paradise of the rediscovery of love. A Dante scholar, Luzzi has devoted his life to teaching and writing about the poet. But until he turned to the epic poem to learn how to resurrect his life, he didn't realize how much the poet has given back to him. A meditation on the influence of great art and its power to give us strength in our darkest moments, In a Dark Wood opens the door into the mysteries of Dante's epic poem. Beautifully written and flawlessly balanced, Luzzi's book is a hybrid of heart-rending memoir and critical insight into one of the greatest pieces of literature in all of history. In a Dark Wood draws us into man's descent into hell and back: it is Dante's journey, Joseph Luzzi's, and our very own."

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Author:   Joseph Luzzi (Bard College, USA) ,  Rick Adamson
Publisher:   HarperCollins
Imprint:   HarperCollins
Edition:   Library Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9781504611527


ISBN 10:   1504611527
Publication Date:   26 May 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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"An engrossing struggle to build a life after enormous personal loss and the luminous power of literature to transform sorrow's exile into a kind of blessing. -- ""New York Journal of Books"" Heartbreaking. Heartrending. Heart-stopping. -- ""Vanity Fair"" Luzzi honestly grapples with profound questions about being a man and father in this very literary and very personal work. -- ""Publishers Weekly"" Luzzi's new memoir transforms unthinkable tragedy into literary gold. More than simply a memoir of mourning, In a Dark Wood testifies to the life-giving importance of literature and what it has to teach us. -- ""BookPage"""


Luzzi's new memoir transforms unthinkable tragedy into literary gold. More than simply a memoir of mourning, In a Dark Wood testifies to the life-giving importance of literature and what it has to teach us. -- BookPage Luzzi honestly grapples with profound questions about being a man and father in this very literary and very personal work. -- Publishers Weekly An engrossing struggle to build a life after enormous personal loss and the luminous power of literature to transform sorrow's exile into a kind of blessing. -- New York Journal of Books Heartbreaking. Heartrending. Heart-stopping. -- Vanity Fair


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Joseph Luzzi holds a doctorate from Yale and teaches at Bard. He is the author of My Two Italies, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy, which won the Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies from the Modern Language Association. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Bookforum, and the Times Literary Supplement. Rick Adamson is an award-winning voice artist with more than twenty years' experience in voiceovers, spoken word events, event announcing, and children's media, as well as commercials for well-known international corporations. He has narrated numerous television and film documentaries, including Croatia, co-narrated with Martin Sheen. His audiobook narration includes more than two dozen major books, as well as dozens of early-reader titles for juveniles. He won the prestigious Audie Award in 2011 for Best Inspirational/Faith-Based Fiction for In a Heartbeat, and he was among the finalists for the 2006 Audie Award for Best Personal Development/Motivational Work for Younger Next Year. He earned an AudioFile Earphones Award for the ensemble narration of Rough Water.

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