Afterlives of the Saints by Colin Dickey

Afterlives of the Saints

Colin Dickey

288 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction essays history religion challenging informative slow-paced
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Afterlives of the Saints is a woven gathering of groundbreaking essays that move through Renaissance anatomy and the Sistine Chapel, Borges’ "Library of Babel," the history of spontaneous human combustion, the dangers of masturbation, the pleasure...

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mysterious 33%
reflective 33%

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