GOD'S FOOL: Francis of Assisi—Julien Green—HC—“A MASTERPIECE”

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A First-Edition HARDCOVER of: • “GOD’S FOOL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FRANCIS OF ASSISI” (Harper and Row, 1985) (Hardcover, First Edition) • BY JULIEN GREEN • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “Through the Christian centuries ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI has been the most beloved of all saints. JULIEN GREEN’s book about him is beautifully written, well researched, and altogether a masterpiece. Readers of it have the privilege not just of learning all about ST. FRANCIS, but of seeming to participate in his sublimely crazy ministry. To say that it is finely done is not enough; it is enchanting.” —MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE • “A book of both sophistication and passion…. Overall, it is the best nontechnical biography of FRANCIS in this century, and quite simply a joy to read.” —LAWRENCE S. CUNNINGHAM, ‘CULTURE AND VALUES,’ ‘BROTHER FRANCIS,’ ETC. • “This is a book you’ll fall in love with. It is written with true FRANCISCAN simplicity and GREEN’s acute sensibility and unique ability to balance light and shadows create on each page a kind of enchantment.” —L’XPRESS (PARIS) • “An enthusiastic, insightful biography of FRANCIS OF ASSISI (1182-1226)…GREEN adopts an informal, sleeves-rolled-up approach, cheerfully mixing his own opinions and adventures in with FRANCIS’s story…. Alll this is carried off in muscular prose bulging with wit…. This, then, is that rarity among hagiographies: a colorful tapestry in which the rich historical background neither dominates nor is obscured by the powerful foreground personality. Francis's passage from peacock dandy to penitent, and his subsequent madcap exploits as God's holy fool, have rarely been recounted with such gusto.”—KIRKUS REVIEWS • “When JULIEN GREEN was converted to Roman Catholicism in 1916, he took as his baptismal name FRANCIS in honor of ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI. Now, nearly 70 years and 40 books later, he has at last written a biography of his patron saint. GOD’S FOOLis, unsurprisingly, a labor of love, a quest to discover the nature of a man who inspired the novelist so deeply in his youth and who has been an inspiration to so many, Catholic, non-Catholic and atheist, through the ages.” —RACHEL BILLINGTON, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “GREEN recounts ably and movingly some of the classics of FRANCIS’ ministry…. And he writes a nice line from time to time: ‘If we edited all the dreams out of…history, the whole thing would grind to a halt.’” —STEVEN ENGLUND, LOS ANGELES TIMES • “I love this book! Stories and facts about FRANCIS I’ve never seen anywhere else.”—BOB SIEKFER, AMAZON REVIEW • ABOUT THE AUTHOR • “A Christian KAFKA” —HERMANN HESSE • “A somber genius.” —ANDRE GIDE • “A subterranean BALZAC.”—MAURICE MAETERLINCK • “JULIEN GREEN (1900-1998) is considered one of the major French-language authors of the 20th century. Born in Paris to American parents, he was the first non-citizen elected to the Académie française. His novels LES PAYS LOINTAINS and LES ÉTOILES DU SUD, based on his mother's memories of her native Savannah, introduced a whole generation of French readers to the history and mythology of the American South.”—FRENCH CULTURE (WEBSITE) • “He was one of the few modern writers to have his collected works published in Gallimard’s Pleiade library during his lifetime…. MR. GREEN’s early success, and the acclaim of such writers as T. S. ELIOT and GIDE, seemed to have had little impact on his imagination: his novels (between 1926 and 1940 he produced roughly one a year) continued to plumb extremities of behavior, dwelling on violent encounters and characters who were often hapless victims of their appetites…. His books consistently received substantial attention in France, yet only intermittent, modest coverage in the United States…. He told an interviewer in 1990 that he could now, after a long struggle, await death with serenity. He was looking forward, he said, ‘to standing before GOD…finally to know exactly who I am, free of all the illusions, the little lies, knowing I am going to purgatory, and knowing I will be very happy.’”—RICHARD E. NICHOLLS, NEW YORK TIMES, THE AUTHOR’S OBITUARY (1998) • ‘JULIEN GREEN’s idea that between the lines of what you write, say, in a journal, is a prophecy for your future.”—THOMAS MERTON • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “GOD’S FOOL: The Life and Times of FRANCIS of Assisi” AUTHOR: JULIEN GREEN TRANSLATOR: PETER HEINEGG TYPE: HARDCOVER PAGES: 273 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Harper and Row (San Francisco), 1985 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First Edition” & this Number Row: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.” FIRST PUBLISHED IN FRENCH: 1983 NOTE: This copy is NOT ex-library NOR a book-club edition. ISBN: 0-06-063462-6 CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD. DJ was not printed with a price—but this is not a Book Club edition. Top corners & spine tips are chipped; bottom corners are rubbed. The shelf-wear along the edges include scuffing. There is moderate scratching & smudging on the sides. Back is lightly age-toned. Imagery & lettering remain bright. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.) CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD. Book is square. Boards are clean light discoloring along edges & bumped tips & corners. Spine is tight—and uncreased. Text-block edges lightly scuffed. Endpapers are lightly toned and there’s a small vintage bookstore on the inside cover (and its imprint/ghosts on adjacent page). Pages have minute & faint toning at their edges but are otherwise bright & clean—with no writing, no doodling, no tears, no stains, no foxing, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. ••• SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned and sturdy box. 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