The President's Angel
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- 35,00 kr
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- 35,00 kr
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The angel appeared in the White House without warning, no blowing of trumpets or rushing of wings. It stood by the President’s bed, radiant, white. Its eyes were pools of love. Its light flooded the bedroom, surrounding and engulfing the President. The angel faded without saying a word, but its appearance forever changed the fate of the world . . .
Millions of readers have come to cherish Burnham’s glorious A Book of Angels and Angel Letters. Now, in her deeply moving novel, The President’s Angel, Burnham weaves the divine grace of angelic apparition into a compelling tale of politics, passion, a spiritual awakening, and the world on the brink of annihilation.
Matthew Adams is the popular, vital President of the United States. Wars rage. Drought and famine spawn violence and migrations. Weapons of mass destruction tempt mad generals. Fear and despair clamp a stranglehold on the spiritual life in America. In a world gone mad, the human race sullenly awaits its doom.
And then an angel appears to the President. This is the story of what happens when the most powerful man on earth experiences a spiritual enlightenment. His colleagues think he has gone crazy. Some plan a coup. . . . Woven throughout the book are what Burnham calls “commentaries”—the world as seen from the point of view of angels, Christ, or God.
A novel about the eternal dualities of salvation and despair, joy and terror, love and brutality. It unfolds in a great, uplifting rush of inspiration. Burnham has heard the laughter of angels and fathomed the dark mysteries of the human heart. In The President’s Angel, she gives a work to treasure and to muse on in our minds and hearts.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Burnham's bestselling nonfiction titles A Book of Angels and Angel Letters and her novel, Revelations , proved there is a craving for inspirational literature in a readership outside the confines of the ``religious'' audience. Her new novel, which she calls the third and last in her angel cycle, is both a fable/homily about the way to reach God and a polemic against the immoral use of power--both personal and political--to create conflict. It is set in a futuristic world ruled by two garrison states, the U.S. and the Enemy, aka the Eastern Orthodox, where military weapons are the major currency and the Barbarians on the borders are engaged in unceasing wars. When an angel appears in the White House bedroom of President Matthew Adams, the chief executive is almost unhinged. On the one hand, he wants to aspire to higher purpose. Yet he is committed to ingrained beliefs: ``People love to make war. It staves off boredom.'' Eventually, however, Adams is led to understand the power of prayer, and the novel ends with a glorious epiphanic vision. Burnham is a fluent writer who urges an ethic of individual choice and responsibility. If her short narrative will seem simplistic to some, others in need of spiritual sustenance may accept its transcendental message.
