ERIC LAX is the author of Conversations with Woody Allen; Life and Death on 10 West (A New York Times Notable Book of the Year); The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat (A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2004); and co-author, with A. M. Sperber, of Bogart (nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography). His biography Woody Allen was a New York Times and international best seller and a Notable Book of the Year. His books have been translated into eighteen languages, and his writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine. An officer of PEN International, he lives with his wife in Los Angeles.
“An intelligent, elegantly composed and open-hearted memoir. . . .
Valuable, even instructive. . . . [Lax] is a writer of gentle
precision and clarity.” —Los Angeles Times
“Lax has written a steady, quiet love letter to a faith he has
lost. . . . Sympathetic and engrossing.” —The New York Times Book
Review
“A poignant, sensitive and thoughtful memoir that illuminates the
complexity of the phenomenon that we call faith.” —Karen Armstrong,
author of The Case for God
“Candid and heartful. . . . Faith, Interrupted resonates because
Lax confronts questions common to believers everywhere, and he does
it without pomposity, self-righteousness, or condescension.”
—America
“A gentle, rueful book . . . Lax’s polished writing style and lack
of assurance that he has all the answers are . . . definite
pluses.” —The Christian Science Monitor
“Heartfelt. . . . An honest and affecting memoir.” —Boston
Globe
“Lax is a good storyteller, careful with words and reflective of
the many ways in which he has had to ponder the eternal questions.
This is not a book that ends with faith restored, God in God’s
heaven and everything right with the world. But it is a book in
which faith is taken seriously and, in the end, respected, even if
the author cannot count himself among the faithful.” —Faith
Matters
“Insightful. . . . Although this book is as much about a
fascinating life as it is about religion, it will appeal to a wide
audience both for its engaging subject matter and first-rate
writing.” —National Catholic Reporter
“Vietnam . . . was at the core of the experience [Lax] recounts as
part of his spiritual journey. . . . This book brings back with
warmth, compassion and riveting detail what those days were like. .
. . [A] deeply touching and personal meditation.” —The Globe and
Mail
“Spiritual memoirs rarely command the same interest to others as
they do for their authors, but Lax’s ability as a writer . . .
makes his memoir an exception. . . . Lax’s journey, told with a
fine sense of narrative shape, is a kind of paradigm of the
spiritual struggles of the first wave of the Baby Boom and will
speak eloquently to that generation.” —Library Journal
“Eric Lax’s moving and riveting memoir reflects a Christian boy’s
struggle with faith and doubt, tradition and discovery. His
encounters with other beliefs reflect as well his sense of empathy
for, and solidity with, victims of destiny.” —Elie Wiesel
“Jesus said that he who would save his life must lose it. Does that
go for faith, too? Do you have to lose it to save it? If there is
any single question that Eric Lax’s luminously honest loss-of-faith
memoir most clearly raises, this would be it. We live in two faith
cultures. One culture only wants to hear how you lost your faith,
the other only how you found it. But some of us have a foot in both
cultures: dubious as plain believers, equally dubious as plain
unbelievers. Eric Lax’s unfinished, interrupted story is a good one
for us, and for better or worse our name is Legion.” —Jack Miles,
author of God: A Biography
“In an age when it’s so fashionable to mock religious belief, Eric
Lax gives us a quiet, very moving meditation on his own spiritual
trials and turns.” —Paul Hendrickson, author, The Living and the
Dead
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