{"product_id":"the-ash-wednesday-supper-hardcover","title":"The Ash Wednesday Supper - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArthur Versluis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStep into the Elizabethan world of the extraordinary Giordano Bruno: a philosopher, a magician, a professor, a spy, an initiate in a pan-European secret society. In this vivid novel, meet kings and queens, court alchemists, great playwrights, scoundrels, and come to know the greatest minds of the Western European Renaissance. Engage with the esoteric spiritual practices of the art of memory, visualization, and mysticism. Enter into the secret societies that sought to bring about a new culture and a new society. Award-winning, \u003cem\u003eThe Ash Wednesday Supper\u003c\/em\u003e brings this remarkable era to life and illuminates how to live in integrity in our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the Hopwood Award for Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Enchanting and original.\"\u003cbr\u003e --John Michell, author of \u003cem\u003eThe View Over Atlantis\u003c\/em\u003e and many other books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a deeply serious and complicated novel at the level of ideas and demands a similar commitment from the reader. But the reader who persists finds himself immersed in a period and world of rapidly increasing fascinations, both human and private, and political and theological. The end came with all the force of fate, and for the writer to make history appear inevitable once again in fiction suggests the kind of obsession and constancy to the subject out of which comes the kind of writing we all care about most--or should.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eAsh Wednesday Supper\u003c\/em\u003e offers us a glimpse into a way of understanding that eludes us today--in this novel, Versluis reveals the intellect universalized as a mode of being for our time. Thoroughly recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e --James Cowan, author of \u003cem\u003eFleeing Herod\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Deposition, \u003c\/em\u003e winner of the Australian Gold Medal for Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 324\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 06, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52537550012723,"sku":"9781596500259","price":64.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Q05ab0p3emJabWJRWjdHOVNHdEdmZz09.webp?v=1760813854","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-ash-wednesday-supper-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}