Eric Swanson, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-20281-1
New York social worker/psychotherapist Christian Fowler returns to his Ohio hometown after three decades, seeking absolution from a friend he betrayed, in Swanson's accomplished, beautifully paced tale of self-discovery and forgiveness. Though the...
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Eric Swanson, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-26693-6
After studying with his lama for three years in the U.S., Swanson (The Boy in the Lake) accompanies him to Tibet, where he begins his spiritual journey. Swanson writes beautifully of the Buddhist saints who left their civilized countries to bring...
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Eric Swanson, Author Little Brown and Company $16.45 (145p) ISBN 978-0-316-82477-4
Like Bright Lights, Big City , this debut novel focuses on an unnamed man in his 20s or 30s struggling to survive the swirl of Manhattan life and honestly confront himself. Swanson's narrator, less witty and more cynical than McInerney's, is a...
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Tsoknyi Rinpoche III with Eric Swanson. Harmony, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-30788-820-4
In this intermediate guide to Buddhist principles, popular Tibetan teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche III writes, “Learning to live with... courage requires us to see the nature of the challenges we face, the nature of ourselves, and the nature of reality, in
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