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The Story of B
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The Story of B Paperback - 1997

by Quinn, Daniel

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Furthering the intellectual and environmental message first proffered in the award-winning book, "Ishmael, The Story of B" tells the story of Jared Osborne, a priest sent on a mission to investigate an itinerant preacher whose radical speeches are attracting a growing number of followers. "Compelling".--Paul Hawken, author of "The Ecology of Commerce".

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  • Title The Story of B
  • Author Quinn, Daniel
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 354
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House Publishing Group, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997-11-03
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4423018-6
  • ISBN 9780553379013 / 0553379011
  • Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.19 x 5.23 x 0.93 in (20.80 x 13.28 x 2.36 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Religious fiction, Antichrist
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96021664
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

Daniel Quinn's first book, Ishmael, won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, a prize for fiction presenting creative and positive solutions to global problems.  He is also the author of Providence, The Story of B, and My Ishmael.

From the jacket flap

"The Story of B combines Daniel Quinn's provocative and visionary ideas with a masterfully plotted story of adventure and suspense in this stunning, resonant novel that is sure to stay with readers long after they have finished the last page. Father Jared Osborne--bound by a centuries-old mandate held by his order to know before all others that the Antichrist is among us--is sent to Europe on a mission to find a peripatetic preacher whose radical message is attracting a growing circle of followers. The target of Osborne's investigation is an American known only as B. He isn't teaching New Age platitudes or building a fanatical following; instead, he is quietly uncovering the hidden history of our planet, redefining the fall of man, and retracing a path of human spirituality that extends millions of years into the past. From the beginning, Fr. Osborne is stunned, outraged, and awed by the simplicity and profundity of B's teachings. Is B merely a heretic--or is he the Antichrist sent to seduce humanity not with wickedness, but with ideas more alluring than those of traditional religion? With surprising twists and fascinating characters, "The Story of B answers this question as it sends readers on an intellectual journey that will forever change the way they view spirituality, human history, and, indeed, the state of our present world.

About the author

Daniel Quinn grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and studied at St. Louis University, the University of Vienna, and Loyola University of Chicago. He worked in Chicago-area publishing for twenty years before beginning work on the book for which he is best known, Ishmael. In 1991, this book was chosen from among some 2,500 international entrants in the Turner Tomorrow competition to win the half-million dollar prize for a novel offering "creative and positive solutions to global problems." It has subsequently sold more than a million copies in English, is available in some thirty languages, and has been used in high schools and colleges worldwide in courses as varied as philosophy, geography, ecology, archaeology, history, biology, zoology, anthropology, political science, economics, and sociology. Subsequent works include Providence, The Story of B, My Ishmael: A Sequel, Beyond Civilization, After Dachau, The Holy, At Woomeroo, The Invisibility of Success, and The Teachings. Daniel Quinn died in 2018.