Product Description

This is a fascinating meditation on faith and hope from one of Britain's most important writers. "Religion", this book begins "is a mistrusted word now", and Nicholas Mosley, in this engaging meditation, seeks to repair that trust. Rather than trying to compel or convince the reader to accept his beliefs, he describes how religion functions in the modern world. Elsewhere, Mosley has written, "There is a subject nowadays that is taboo in the same way that sexuality was once taboo, which is to talk about life as if it had any meaning". One of the most important English writers of the post-war period, Mosley's experiences have contributed to an outlook that is rarely expressed by someone of his stature. He writes not to persuade, but to explain a worldview that is refreshing for the hope and intelligence it contains.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1165576 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 156 pages

Review
"Mosley is the most serious and brilliant of Britain's novelists of ideas". - Times (London) "On of the most compelling writers in the English language" - Joyce Carol Oates"

About the Author
Nicholas Mosley was born in 1923 and educated at Eton and Oxford. He has published 16 works of fiction and won the 1990 Whitbread Award for his novel Hopeful Monsters. He has also written numerous works of non-fiction including a biography of his father, the Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley. He currently resides in London.