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Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from the Ends of Faith
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Hardcover
from Unbridled Books (June 12, 2012)
9781609530723 | details & prices | 236 pages | 6.00 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $24.95
About: Afterlives of the Saints is a woven gathering of groundbreaking essays that move through Renaissance anatomy and the Sistine Chapel, Borgesâ "Library of Babel," the history of spontaneous human combustion, the dangers of masturbation, the pleasures of castration, Âand so forthâ Â each essay focusing on the story of a particular (and particularly strange) saint.
About: Afterlives of the Saints is a woven gathering of groundbreaking essays that move through Renaissance anatomy and the Sistine Chapel, Borgesâ "Library of Babel," the history of spontaneous human combustion, the dangers of masturbation, the pleasures of castration, Âand so forthâ Â each essay focusing on the story of a particular (and particularly strange) saint.