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Running to the Mountain: A Journey of Faith and Change
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780679456780
- Book Title
- Running to the Mountain : a Journey of Faith and Change
- Item Length
- 7.2in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Religion, Social Science
- Topic
- Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Inspirational, Aging, General, Literary, Life Stages / Mid-Life, Sociology / Rural
- Item Width
- 5.6in
- Item Weight
- 13.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 242 Pages
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Jon Katz, a respected journalist, author, father, and husband, was turning fifty. His writing career was taking an uneasy turn, his wife had a demanding career of her own, his daughter was preparing to leave home for college, and he had become used to a sedentary lifestyle. "I had settled down," he notes. "Any more settling and I would vanish into the mud like some fat old catfish." In Running to the Moun-tain, Katz finds a way to redefine and lend new meaning to his life. He writes, "I bought a tiny cabin at the very tip of a mountain in a remote corner of upstate New York and went there by myself. . . . I went for a lot of different reasons, but mostly, I think, to try to be a better human." Armed with the writings of Trappist monk Thomas Merton, his two faithful yellow Labradors, and the desire to confront change rather than simply react to it, Katz departs from his suburban en-clave (where, as a carpooling father, he is known as "The Prince of Rides") and heads to a new world. What he finds is a community where a rodent problem prompts anyone within earshot at the hardware store to offer advice, and where the digging of a new well draws every neighbor within miles to his front lawn. It's also a place where he can be alone in na-ture, a new discovery for someone whose "favorite night out is a trip to a bookstore, the pizza place, and the Sony megaplex." Habitually skeptical about religion, Katz finds in solitude a chance to consider the questions that have followed him into middle age: Can one find spirituality outside of a church, temple, or mosque? Is it possible to build a rational, moral framework for one's life amid the complexities of modern life? As Katz restores his old cabin, learns self-reliance in a lightning storm, and helps a friend prepare for fatherhood, he gathers newfound knowledge that will be a source of inspiration and achievement as he returns to the life he left behind. "It is absolutely impossible," Merton wrote, "for a man to live without some kind of faith." Katz adds, "It is equally impossible to change your life without some." Running to the Mountain is an unex-pected reading experience of adventure, humor, contemplation, and growth. "As notions such as solitude and spirituality have been made to seem godly, they appear to float high above our mundane and unheroic experiences. Working long hours for big companies, rushing kids around to malls and soccer games, squirreling money away for college and retirement, we want to read about conversations with God, but don't really expect to have any ourselves. . . . My hope, coming to the mountain, was that change, spirituality, and idealism aren't only way Up There, but also Down Here, in the details of daily life--family, work, friends, dogs, dreams." --From Running to the Mountain
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679456783
ISBN-13
9780679456780
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1052216
Product Key Features
Book Title
Running to the Mountain : a Journey of Faith and Change
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Inspirational, Aging, General, Literary, Life Stages / Mid-Life, Sociology / Rural
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Family & Relationships, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Religion, Social Science
Number of Pages
242 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
13.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
98-035229
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
21
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