How Dante Can Save Your Life, Rod Dreher
How Dante Can Save Your Life, Rod Dreher
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How Dante Can Save Your Life
The Life-changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem

Author: Rod Dreher

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Unabridged: 10 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/30/2015


Synopsis

Following the death of his little sister and the publication of his New York Times bestselling memoir The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Dreher found himself living in the small community of Starhill, Louisiana where he grew up. But instead of the fellowship he hoped to find, he discovered that fault lines within his family had deepened. Dreher spiraled into depression and a stress-related autoimmune disease. Doctors told Dreher that if he didn't find inner peace, he would destroy his health. Soon after, he came across The Divine Comedy in a bookstore and was enchanted by its first lines, which seemed to describe his own condition.

In the months that followed Dante helped Dreher understand the mistakes and mistaken beliefs that had torn him down and showed him that he had the power to change his life. Dreher knows firsthand the solace and strength that can be found in Dante's great work, and distills its wisdom for those who are lost in the dark wood of depression, struggling with failure (or success), wrestling with a crisis of faith, alienated from their families or communities, or otherwise enduring the sense of exile that is the human condition.

Inspiring, revelatory, and packed with penetrating spiritual, moral, and psychological insights How Dante Can Save Your Life is a book for people, both religious and secular, who find themselves searching for meaning and healing. Dante told his patron that he wrote his poem to bring readers from misery to happiness. It worked for Rod Dreher. Dante saved Rod Dreher's life—and in this book, Dreher shows you how Dante can save yours.

About Rod Dreher

Rod Dreher is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life and Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, Gun-Loving Organic Gardeners, Evangelical Free-Range Farmers, Hip Homeschooling Mamas, Right-Wing Nature Lovers, and Their Diverse Tribe of Countercultural Conservatives Plan to Save America (or At Least the Republican Party). He is a senior editor at The American Conservative. His work has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Post, the Dallas Morning News, National Review, and the Wall Street Journal, and broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered and BBC Radio. Rod lives in St. Francisville, Louisiana, with his wife Julie and their three children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by David on September 16, 2017

So often it seems we encounter certain books at just the right time, and such was the case for me with Rod Dreher's "How Dante Can Save Your Life". My son Matt and I have been doing a buddy read through Dante's "Inferno", which has greatly whetted my appetite for the remaining volumes of the Divine......more

Goodreads review by Ben on June 25, 2020

How Dante Can Save Your Life, or Why Does My Family Hate Me, Can't They See It's Them? and Other Sermons with Tidbits On Why I Left The Catholic Church. I was surprised by how little this had to do with Dante and how much this was really just a memoir about Dreher's family. Not that I mind memoirs, b......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on May 07, 2015

I follow Rod Dreher on Twitter, read his previous book The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, and read a lot of what he writes for The American Conservative, so when he began blogging through The Divine Comedy I read his posts on it with great interest. Dante’s Comedy is my favorite book and one I’ve read......more

Goodreads review by Amy on May 20, 2015

Rod Dreher stood in a bookstore, browsing through books, never guessing that his next move would change the course of his life. He pulled a copy of Dante’s Commedia off the shelf and opened to the first pages and read, Midway in the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood, For the straight......more

Goodreads review by Carla on May 09, 2019

Dante numa "salada russa" de disfuncionalidade familiar e reflexão religiosa... vale pelos momentos "dantescos".......more