Spirited Men e-bog

In this remarkable collection of essays, acclaimed writer Brian Doyle offers "e;resurrections, restorations, reconsiderations, appreciations, enthusiasms, headlong solos, laughing prayers, imaginary meetings with most unusual and most interesting men."e; Geographically and chronologically diverse-Plutarch of Greece; William Blake of England; Robert Louis Stevenson of Scotland; James Joyce and Van Morrison of Ireland; and others-Doyle sees them as men of "e;immense spiritual substance, prayerful fury, enormous grace,"e; men concerned with "e;the moral grapple"e; and "e;the sinuous crucial puzzle of love."e; In telling the stories of these talented, troubled, and extraordinary men, Doyle discerns clues about how to be a good man, headlong in the pursuit of love and capable of greatness.