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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Novel, Last

The Last Day: A Novel

ISBN13: 9781586421656
Condition: New
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I meet Jesus on the day I get home from the war. Iâ€™m on the beach, but I donâ€™t know how I got here. My mind is as dark as the night. . . . I spend the whole night on the beach. But when the sunâ€™s faint light begins to bend around the Earth, I see him. . . . There, coming toward me, out of the light, is a man. . . . Behind the man a faint curtain of light rises to the sky out of the ocean. He wears the light like a robe, though I see heâ€™s dressed like me. Jeans and a T-shirt, no shoes. And that heâ€™s older than I am, a lot older, maybe mid-thirties. He walks right toward me. He walks right into my eyes.

So begins the spellbinding story of Warren Harlan Pease, a young U.S. Army sniper freshly returned from the Iraq War to his native New Hampshire. What follows is a page-turning adventure that is also a powerful meditation on religion and war, love and loss.

The Last Day answers questions and asks many more. Armed with a sniperâ€™s rifle and his deeply held faith, Specialist Pease travels across ideological borders and earns an appreciation for his enemyâ€™s culture and for what connects us all as human beings. â€œWar doesnâ€™t test your faith in Jesus,â€ Warren comes to realize. â€œIt tests your faith in yourself.â€ Upon returning home, he spends an entire day with Jesus visiting and contemplating his own life with fresh eyes, and a willing heart. He examines his relationship to those he loves, and grapples with the pain he has been carrying inside since the death of his mother when he was just a boy.

This extraordinary work of compassion and healing grace combines the themes of religion, war and poetry in a way that is wholly original, and unforgettable. It will resonate with skeptics and believers, be shared and discussed between friends and among families.