Will the Circle Be Unbroken? : Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith HARDBOUND

The New Press, 2001. 1ST. SOFTCOVER. LIKE NEW. 1ST. 6.5 x 1.68 x 9.5 inches. pp. 407. Publisher: The New Press; 1st edition (October 15, 2001)Language: EnglishHARDBOUND: 407 pages ISBN-10: 1565846923 ISBN-13: 978-0641759376Item Weight: 1.65 poundsDimensions: 6.5 x 1.68 x 9.5 inches. Studs Terkel has turned to the ultimate human experience, that of death and the possibility of life afterward. Death is the one experience we all share but cannot know. In Studs Terkel's powerful new book, Will the Circle Be Unbroken? a wide range of people address that final experience and its impact on the present in which we live. In talking about the ultimate and unknowable culmination of our lives, these people give voice to their deepest beliefs and hopes, reflecting on the lives they have led and what still lies before them. The result is a book that may well be Terkel's most popular, a universal and deeply moving account of death and religion. This is the first time Terkel addresses the whole realm of religious belief and of expectations of an afterlife, including reincarnation. Interviewing a fascinating variety of people, he is able to come up with an extraordinary range of experience and of belief, all of which prove far more complex than Terkel anticipated.