Exiles

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Literary, Historical
Cover of the book Exiles by Ron Hansen, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Ron Hansen ISBN: 9781429941433
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: March 15, 2010
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: Ron Hansen
ISBN: 9781429941433
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: March 15, 2010
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

With Exiles, Ron Hansen tells the story of a notorious shipwreck that prompted Gerard Manley Hopkins to break years of "elected silence" with an outpouring of dazzling poetry.

In December 1875 the steamship Deutschland left Bremen, bound for England and then America. On board were five young nuns who, exiled by Bismarck's laws against Catholic religious orders, were going to begin their lives anew in Missouri. Early one morning, the ship ran aground in the Thames and more than sixty lives were lost—including those of the five nuns.

Hopkins was a Jesuit seminarian in Wales, and he was so moved by the news of the shipwreck that he wrote a grand poem about it, his first serious work since abandoning a literary career at Oxford to become a priest. He too would die young, an exile from the literary world. But as Hansen's gorgeously written account of Hopkins's life makes clear, he fulfilled his calling.

Combining a thrilling tragedy at sea with the seeming shipwreck of Hopkins's own life, Exiles joins Hansen's Mariette in Ecstasy (called "an astonishingly deft and provocative novel" by The New York Times) as a novel that dramatizes the passionate inner search of religious life and makes it accessible to us in the way that only great art can.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

With Exiles, Ron Hansen tells the story of a notorious shipwreck that prompted Gerard Manley Hopkins to break years of "elected silence" with an outpouring of dazzling poetry.

In December 1875 the steamship Deutschland left Bremen, bound for England and then America. On board were five young nuns who, exiled by Bismarck's laws against Catholic religious orders, were going to begin their lives anew in Missouri. Early one morning, the ship ran aground in the Thames and more than sixty lives were lost—including those of the five nuns.

Hopkins was a Jesuit seminarian in Wales, and he was so moved by the news of the shipwreck that he wrote a grand poem about it, his first serious work since abandoning a literary career at Oxford to become a priest. He too would die young, an exile from the literary world. But as Hansen's gorgeously written account of Hopkins's life makes clear, he fulfilled his calling.

Combining a thrilling tragedy at sea with the seeming shipwreck of Hopkins's own life, Exiles joins Hansen's Mariette in Ecstasy (called "an astonishingly deft and provocative novel" by The New York Times) as a novel that dramatizes the passionate inner search of religious life and makes it accessible to us in the way that only great art can.

More books from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Cover of the book Find Me by Ron Hansen
Cover of the book Pot on the Fire by Ron Hansen
Cover of the book Repetition by Ron Hansen
Cover of the book Israel Is Real by Ron Hansen
Cover of the book To Die in Spring by Ron Hansen
Cover of the book Tales of the Night by Ron Hansen
Cover of the book The Yugo by Ron Hansen
Cover of the book Whirlwind by Ron Hansen
Cover of the book Accepting the Disaster by Ron Hansen
Cover of the book Retromania by Ron Hansen
Cover of the book The Best of All Possible Worlds by Ron Hansen
Cover of the book Madlenka's Dog by Ron Hansen
Cover of the book Israel: An Echo of Eternity by Ron Hansen
Cover of the book Caleb and Kate by Ron Hansen
Cover of the book The Skin of the Sky by Ron Hansen
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy