{"product_id":"concerning-the-future-of-souls","title":"Concerning the Future of Souls","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eConcerning the Future of Souls\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJoy Williams\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781959030591\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eTin House Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2024\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eReturning to her legendary short stories, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams offers a much-anticipated follow-up to \u003cem\u003eNinety-Nine Stories of God\u003c\/em\u003e, which \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e called a \"treasure trove of bafflements and tiny masterpieces.\" \u003cem\u003eConcerning the Future of Souls\u003c\/em\u003e balances the extraordinary and the humble, the bizarre and the beatific, as Azrael--transporter of souls and the most troubled and thoughtful of the angels--confronts the holy impossibility of his task, his uneasy relationship with Death, and his friendship with the Devil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Over the course of these ninety-nine illuminations, a collection of connected and disparate beings--ranging from ordinary folk to grand, known figures such as Jung, Nietzsche, Pythagoras, Bach, and Rilke; to mountains, oceans, dogs, birds, whales, horses, butterflies, a sixty-year-old tortoise, and a chimp named Washoe--experience the varying fate of the soul as each encounters the darkness of transcendence in this era of extinction. A brilliant crash course in philosophy, religion, literature, and culture, \u003cem\u003eConcerning the Future of Souls\u003c\/em\u003e is an absolution and an indictment, sorrowful and ecstatic. Williams will leave you wonderstruck, pondering the morality of being mortal.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Tin House Books","offers":[{"title":"Concerning the Future of Souls | Joy Williams | Hardcover | 9781959030591 | New | Fiction 1620507","offer_id":50691952607490,"sku":"1620507","price":34.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71gnV8NbIGL.jpg?v=1791522642","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/concerning-the-future-of-souls","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}