3 edition of Peter DeVries found in the catalog.
Peter DeVries
Roderick Jellema
Published
1966
by Eerdmans in [Grand Rapids]
.
Written in English
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 46-48.
| Series | Contemporary writers in Christian perspective |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PS3507.E8673 Z7 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 48 p. |
| Number of Pages | 48 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL5991861M |
| LC Control Number | 66022952 |
Peter De Vries, (born Feb. 27, , Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Sept. 28, , Norwalk, Conn.), American editor and novelist widely known as a satirist, linguist, and comic visionary.. De Vries was the son of Dutch immigrants to the United States and was reared in a Calvinist environment on Chicago’s South Side. He graduated () from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. The Tunnel of Love [is] an agreeable, even fizzy portrait of postwar suburban America De Vries’s books certainly respect the conventions of plot and character, but his heart is elsewhere—with his sly, even subversive wit that detonates paragraph after paragraph as Brand: University of Chicago Press.
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It follows the life of Don Wanderhop from his childhood in an immigrant Calvinist family living in Chicago in the s through the loss of a brother, his faith, his wife, and finally his daughter-a tragedy drawn directly from De Vries’s own life.
De Vries published the book injust a year after his own daughter, Emily, died of leukemia at age ten. In The Blood of the Lamb, De Vries doesn’t merely mock religion, he assaults it with every shred of his intellect and his broken heart.
In an unforgettable climactic scene, he directs his rage toward a God who allows children to suffer. Without a Stitch in Time, a selection of forty-six articles and stories written for the New Yorker between andoffers pun-filled autobiographical vignettes that reveal the source of De Vries’s nervous wit: the cognitive dissonance between his Calvinist upbringing in s Chicago and.
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