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• Title : The Metaphor Maker
• Author : Patricia Adams Farmer
• Rating : 4.87 (784 Vote)
• Publish : 2016-9-8
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 133 Pages
• Asin : B00359FEWC
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Spring 1968. Unnerved by the possibility that her brother’s death was not as it was officially recorded, she faces a stone wall of silence that mirrors her writing block as a poet. Just as she begins to discover metaphors of healing, she is hit by another sho

Spring 1968. Unnerved by the possibility that her brother’s death was not as it was officially recorded, she faces a stone wall of silence that mirrors her writing block as a poet. Just as she begins to discover metaphors of healing, she is hit by another shocking loss, one which threatens all hope in the world. Against the backdrop of the cultural upheavals of 1968, Madeline falls in love, not only with her future husband, but also with a radically fresh way of re-imagining God in a world of war and suffering.. Madeline Prescott, grieved by the loss of her brother in Vietnam, embarks on a quest for “a metaphor to live by.” Under the wing of Eve van Gelder, proprietor of Van Gelder’s Tea and Books, she finds herself in a world of tea-drinking thinkers, poets, and quirky counter-cultural characters

Patricia Adams Farmer is the author of EMBRACING A BEAUTIFUL GOD (Chalice Press 2003) and a contributing editor for CREATIVE TRANSFORMATION magazine. Farmer. She lives in Southern California with her author/professor husband, Ronald L.

. She divides her time between teaching, writing, and waiting hand-and-foot on four cats. THE METAPHOR MAKER is her first novel

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. She lives in Southern California with her author/professor husband, Ronald L. THE METAPHOR MAKER is her first novel. Farmer. About the Author Patricia Adams Farmer is the author of EMBRACING A BEAUTIFUL GOD (Chalice Press 2003) and a contributing editor for CREATIVE TRANSFORMATION magazine. She divides her time between teaching, writing, and waiting hand-and-foot on four cats