{"product_id":"9780312428341","title":"Exiles : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eExiles\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Ron Hansen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn December 1875 the steamship \u003ci\u003eDeutschland \u003c\/i\u003eleft Bremen, Germany, bound for America. On board were five nuns, exiled by a ban on religious orders, bound to begin their lives anew in Missouri. Their journey would end when the \u003ci\u003eDeutschland \u003c\/i\u003eran aground at the mouth of the Thames and all five drowned. Ron Hansen tells their harrowing story, but also that of the poet and seminarian Gerard Manly Hopkins, and how the shipwreck moved him to write a grand poem, a revelatory work read throughout the world today. Combining a thrilling tragedy at sea, with the seeming shipwreck of Hopkins's own life, \"Hansen brilliantly, if soberly, weaves two interrelated story lines into a riveting novel\" (\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003eExiles\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[An] Elegant, meditative novel . . . [In] the sublime \u003ci\u003eMariette in Ecstasy\u003c\/i\u003e, Hansen deftly conveyed the intensity of religious experience that verged on insanity. \u003ci\u003eExiles\u003c\/i\u003e, for all its storminess, is a quieter but equally affecting depiction of a spiritually and artistically transcen-dent life.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dazzling and beautiful . . .  it kept me up after midnight three nights in a row.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of our finest novelists . . . Hansen conveys a man conflicted by his callings as both a spiritual vessel and a full-blooded artist.” —\u003ci\u003eEnterainment Weekly (Grade: A)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ron Hansen sketches a delicate portrait of Hopkins. . . . He brings his usual magic to the task.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A shifting, sympathetic depiction of piety and piety's torments . . . a brave meditation on religious experience.” —\u003ci\u003eThe News and Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780312428341\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40626200510670,"sku":"9780312428341","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_81720313-c471-4917-a3b3-65df0344c95b.jpg?v=1638670986","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780312428341","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}