Bibliograph

Spider in a tree, a novel, Susan Stinson

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Spider in a tree, a novel, Susan Stinson

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Spider in a tree

Oclc number

829387252

Responsibility statement

Susan Stinson

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"In his famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, " Jonathan Edwards compared a person dangling a spider over a hearth to God holding a sinner over the fires of hell. Here, spiders and insects preach back. No voice drowns out all others: Leah, a young West African woman enslaved in the Edwards household; Edwards's young cousins Joseph and Elisha, whose father kills himself in fear for his soul; and Sarah, Edwards' wife, who is visited by ecstasy. Ordinary grace, human failings, and extraordinary convictions combine in unexpected ways to animate this New England tale"--, Provided by publisher

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