Dan Wakefield, Author . Avalon/Nation Books $23.95 (210p) ISBN 978-1-56025-745-5
By his own admission, Wakefield, a journalist, novelist, screenwriter and Protestant who comes from several generations of Baptist ministers, was "one of the great slumber party of mainline American Protestant 'liberals'... whose...
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Dan Wakefield, Author Little Brown and Company $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-91778-0
In 1988, Wakefield (Going All the Way) thought he had set his feet firmly on the spiritual path. He had just published Returning, an inspiring memoir about his return to faith and health after decades of heavy drinking and serious despair. He was...
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Dan Wakefield, Author Ballantine Books $24 (321p) ISBN 978-0-345-37430-1
""Clarity of mind, body, and spirit is the key to creativity,"" declares Wakefield (Expect a Miracle) at the start of this sage and affirming work. To help readers understand and embrace both clarity and its radiant offspring, creativity, Wakefield...
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Dan Wakefield, Author One World $19 (321p) ISBN 978-0-345-41343-7
PW called this volume ""a potentially life-changing work"" that ""should appeal to the same wide readership as Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way."" (June)
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Dan Wakefield, Author Penguin Books $9 (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-011727-1
At age 48, Wakefield awoke screaming in panic. He fled from Hollywood to Boston in search of treatment for stress, and later for a deeper malady: spiritual emptiness. ``Eloquently, he re-creates his initial steps in regaining his religious faith,''...
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Dan Wakefield, Author Doubleday Books $17.95 (250p) ISBN 978-0-385-23722-2
Wakefield (Going All the Way et al.) sweeps us up into his life story, which begins here at a fearful moment. At age 48, he awoke screaming in panic and fled from Hollywood to Boston in search of treatment for stress and later for a deeper malady,...
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Dan Wakefield, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24.95 (355p) ISBN 978-0-395-51320-0
While Allen Ginsberg howled that the best minds of his generation were being destroyed by madness, Wakefield, who lived in the same town, was high on just being there, on making it as a freelance writer if not yet as a novelist, on the camaraderie...
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Dan Wakefield, Author HarperOne $19 (257p) ISBN 978-0-06-069225-4
After an introductory section that traces the conflict between miracles and science from the Gospels to modern times, novelist and popular spiritual memoirist Wakefield (Returning: A Spiritual Journey, etc.) explores miracles of healing and recovery,
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Dan Wakefield, Author, Marian Delvecchio, Illustrator , illus. by Marian delVecchio. SkyLight Paths $21.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-893361-88-1
Although Wakefield culls these essays from, among other sources, his Beliefnet column "Spiritually Incorrect," the titular concept remains rather vague throughout the book. In his introduction, he gives several examples of being spiritually...
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