Early Buzz From Amazon.com Top Reviewers

We queried our top 100 reviewers as of April 6, and asked them to read The Stolen Child and share their thoughts. We've included these early reviews below in the order they were received. For the sake of space, we've only included a brief excerpt of each reviewer's response, but each review is available for reading in its entirety by clicking the "Read the review" link. Enjoy!

An Autobiographical Note from Keith Donohue

My dad used to call me, the middle child of seven, "the youngest of the oldest, and the oldest of the youngest." Being dead smack in the middle of a large Irish American family, it is no wonder that I have felt like a changeling myself now and again. We were just like the Kennedys, without the money or the power.

We lived in a cramped yellow house at the bottom of a steep hill in Pittsburgh. Climbing that street as a small child was like hiking up a mountain, but it instilled a sense of ambition and determination. In the mid-Sixties, we moved to Southern Maryland, to a town so small that there was but a single commercial crossroads with a High's Dairy Store across from Ben Franklin's Five and Dime Store. There were still enough woods and swampland available to allow for hours of exploration and getting lost nearly every day.

On a whim, I went back to Pittsburgh for college and began to write in earnest at Duquesne University, studying under the Pennsylvania state laureate poet Sam Hazo, and putting myself through school through two creative writing scholarships. My dream was to be a novelist, but there weren't any openings.

Upon graduation, and being unable to find a job in the city, I moved back to the Washington area to work for the National Endowment for the Arts, answering the mail for the chairman of the agency. Within four years, I was writing speeches for a new and different chairman, a job I held for the eight years that coincided with what some have called the culture wars. I wrote for the freedom of expression crowd.

Off hours, I went back to school, earned a doctorate in English literature, specializing in modern Irish literature. After stints working on federal child care policy and as a cultural policy analyst, I circled round again to that steep hill and wrote The Stolen Child, figuring that if I was to become that novelist, the time had come to stop dreaming and simply climb.

I'm married, have four children, and am back working at a small embattled agency that gives grants to archives across the country to preserve and publish the records of the American experience. In my spare time, I'm writing another novel about myths in America.

The Story Behind the Story

The very first image that came to me when I began The Stolen Child was of a young boy hiding in a hollow tree, face pressed against its wooden ribs, determined not to be found by anyone. His defiant wish to be alone struck me as a universal gesture--a striking out for independence that children make when frustrated by the confines of childhood. When the changelings come and get that boy, he becomes a victim of his own imagination. He is stolen away by his own worst nightmare.

As concerned as I was about the boy hiding in the tree, I also knew that I wanted to write about an adult struggling to remember the dreams of childhood. He had to be as trapped and frustrated by the strictures of his adulthood. And in order for any drama to exist, these two emotional states must clash.

That's why there are two narrators telling two intertwined stories--one adult trying to remember his "stolen" childhood and one child trapped in time at age seven. Since the conflict is primarily between the grown-up Henry Day and the child Aniday, the story needed some way to make both characters alive, have parallel and mirroring lives, joys and challenges, and allow them to confront one another. I needed some way to make the metaphorical be literal.

That's where the changeling folk myth came in. Changelings and faeries have been around for eons in virtually every culture. They are the mysterious beings flitting around the corner of the imagination, and in many places, faeries and changelings have the reputation of breaking into homes and replacing babies and young children with replicas. Or luring children away from their homes to come live in the wild and become part of their unaging magical tribe. The child is stolen by the faeries, and the faery changeling "becomes" the child.

In reality, the legend grew from real human predicaments dealing primarily with the inability of some parents to care for children with a failure to thrive. They explained away the unwanted children by claiming that they were not human at all, that the changelings had come and stolen their child and left one of their own in its place. Having a changeling rather than a real human made it much easier for parents to get rid of such a child.

Through our wild imaginations and fear of the dark and unknown, the changeling myth evolved into a spooky story. Careful, kid, or the changelings will come get you. Or, conversely, as an explanation for why you're so different from all the rest of the kids; you're actually a changeling.
"The Stolen Child" by William Butler Yeats, is one of the more well-known literary uses of folk legend to comment on the real world. Reading the poem, we get caught up in those wonderful images of "hidden faery vats" and the faeries "whispering to the slumbering trout," but then Yeats gives us, in the final stanza, an idea of the family life that the stolen child is leaving behind. But away he goes, "from a world more full of weeping than he can understand."

How perfect for a story about what it's like to be seven and to remember being seven.

So I asked myself: What if we make the changelings real? What if we have the boy out in the woods with a band of faeries, the flip side of the real world? What if he is replaced by a changeling who can grow up and become the adult, who fools everyone into thinking that he is indeed the real Henry Day, when he knows all along that the authentic Henry is out there in the woods?

That's when the fun began. The two narrators' stories spiraling around and interlocking like a Celtic knot. The changeling who steals Henry Day's life gradually realizes that he, too, was a real human boy once upon a time. He, too, was a stolen child and must struggle to dredge up that childhood and deal with his dreams and his own weeping world. The real Henry Day--now known as Aniday among the faeries--faces what it means to be a part of a fading folk myth at the latter half of the 20th century, and the struggle that all children have coming to terms with their mortality, leaving family behind, and leaving childhood behind in order to find some speck of love, happiness, and the road ahead.

Book Description

Inspired by the W.B. Yeats poem that tempts a child from home to the waters and the wild, The Stolen Child is a modern fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double.

On a summer night, Henry Day runs away from home and hides in a hollow tree. There he is taken by the changelings—an unaging tribe of wild children who live in darkness and in secret. They spirit him away, name him Aniday, and make him one of their own. Stuck forever as a child, Aniday grows in spirit, struggling to remember the life and family he left behind. He also seeks to understand and fit in this shadow land, as modern life encroaches upon both myth and nature.

In his place, the changelings leave a double, a boy who steals Henry’s life in the world. This new Henry Day must adjust to a modern culture while hiding his true identity from the Day family. But he can’t hide his extraordinary talent for the piano (a skill the true Henry never displayed), and his dazzling performances prompt his father to suspect that the son he has raised is an imposter. As he ages the new Henry Day becomes haunted by vague but persistent memories of life in another time and place, of a German piano teacher and his prodigy. Of a time when he, too, had been a stolen child. Both Henry and Aniday obsessively search for who they once were before they changed places in the world.

The Stolen Child is a classic tale of leaving childhood and the search for identity. With just the right mix of fantasy and realism, Keith Donohue has created a bedtime story for adults and a literary fable of remarkable depth and strange delights.

Customer Reviews:

A Story of Progress and of Stagnation.......2007-10-02

This was one of the best novels that I've read this year. What stood out for me was the importance of valuing one's life and appreciating the here and now--be it family, friends, or the community. The changes that Henry and the changeling experienced represented the immature human desire for the greener grass on the other side of the fence. Despite the moving ups and downs for Henry and the changling community, I could not help but wonder what would happen if the changelings decided to just grow up. There were so many unnecessary sacrifices because the changlings chose to hide and not to become apart of society. Through the use of the prose, The Stolen Child demonstrated the pitfalls of a lack of faith, low self esteem, and fear of the unknown. But all is not lost, we get to see the changlings grow into self actualized beings with peace for their station in life and hope for what they can become.

Hobgoblins and Children.......2007-09-26

This is definitely a fairy tale, the story of a little boy, stolen from his family and exchanged with a "changeling" to give that once stolen child another chance at a life--even if it isn't theirs to have. As the old myths go, a changeling was the child of hobgoblins, switched from the child's bed while the family slept or worked, unaware of the evil deed going on right beneath their noses. This story has a different take though--the changelings were all once children themselves, who spend years in the forest forgetting who they once were and preparing to switch yet another child and take their life. No parents in the forest.

The author narrates the story from both points of view--the child and the changeling, alternating chapters. The writing is compelling and beautiful--descriptions of the "indifferent children of the earth" and their lives abound, and are lyrical and strangely beautiful, and sad.

All in all a great read, although I felt at the end the story lacked a real emotional connection for me. I grew to care for Aniday and Henry Day and their respective families; but the ending didn't provide the closure I felt the story really needed. Still, it was an interesting study of the changeling myth and what those stories could really mean.

Steals your Soul.......2007-09-25

The sometimes not-to-be-taken-too-seriously fantasy genre is served well by Keith Donohue's novel, "The Stolen Child." Using the changeling legend as a basis, Donohue explores complicated themes that may include growing older with a diminishing sense of self-worth, the search for identity, unhappiness caused by unrequited desire or restlessness attributed to middle-classed conformity. Whatever the focal point, Donohue does a magnificent job of entertaining even if none of the seriousness I perceive to be inherent within the novel's pages is intentional.

On face value, Donohue could just be exercising his whimsical side by revitalizing a well-known fairytale ala Gregory Maguire in "Mirror, Mirror," or "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister." If this is the case, he does this well, beginning his tale in the 1950s when a small child is kidnapped by a band of hobgoblins and replaced by a changeling who has waited for over a hundred years to leave the Peter Pan Never Never Land world of the fey to reclaim his former humanity in the smaller universe of a real family. Using the technique of alternating narrations, Donohue allows Anyday, the stolen child, and Henry Day, the changeling, to tell the story from both perspectives. As Anyday struggles with his forever child fate, bemoans the loss of his family and learns the ways of the wild, Henry is torn between successfully impersonating the boy he has replaced and remembering the child he once was long ago when he had been abducted a century earlier. With a deft assuredness, Donohue writes prose that moves the story along interjecting fantasy with reality while still maintaining a real feel.

Whatever his intention, along the way he uncovers issues that have little to do with the realm of the fantastic and much to do with living in general. As Anyday becomes increasingly fey, he grapples with his loss of memory and recalling one of the last skills learned as a human child, writes down his story to assuage his unhappiness and remember his one time identity. In almost the same way, the changeling evokes a talent from a previous childhood almost forgotten; he plays piano like a young Mozart. As he strives to forget the wild, he uses his artistry to assimilate into the conformity of life as a human. As he transitions, Henry Day regains his sense of compassion and through his music begs forgiveness from the person whose life he stole. Likewise, Anyday relishes his sense of freedom and forever childishness and literally runs away from something he can never have and really doesn't need.

On another level, Donohue allows the reader a glimpse at the human psyche, yet he doesn't compromise his story with an overabundance of metaphors and symbols. No underlying hackneyed meanings or moralistic message cancel out the magic that Donohue so effortlessly infuses within his work. Donohue could be commenting on the mediocrity of the middleclass lifestyle; Henry Day and Anyday may represent two sides of the same persona, simultaneously desiring the conformity necessary to make it in the everyday world and yet coveting the freedom of never having to grow up while living without rules in the wild.

Bottom line: "The Stolen Child" represents superlative reading. The mythical quality of the prose sends the reader into the realm of fantasy while the intense emotional confessions of each character resonate with a poignancy classic in its perfection. Highly, highly recommended.
Diana Faillace Von Behren
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Haunting literary novel about identity, loss, love, family.......2007-09-23

This has many markings of a successful novel. Fantasy element; check. But grounded in the world, check. Same events seen via two perspectives (aka The Time-Traveler's Wife), check. Insertion of a cultural motif like painting or music, check. One or several characters with a sad history and intense yearning as a result, check. Beautiful writing, check check check.

The title comes from WB Yeats' famed poem, "The Stolen Child." Changelings will often lure a child away from the real world into the faery one, and put in its place a changeling disguised as the stolen child. In Donahue's novel, a child is taken and, bereft of his true name and longed-for home and family, becomes a changeling himself, one who waits for the day he can return to the human world, but only as an imposter, and not before the rest of the changeling crew get their turns.

The novel speaks eloquently and often quite hauntingly of the loss of identity, love, family, and the great desire to belong. There were nights when I read certain passages and ached for the changeling who dreamed of the people and things he'd lost; surely we too - whether we did once upon a time or still do - dream of the people and things gone from our lives.

The Feel-bad Book of theYear.......2007-09-19

Take a story about fairies and remove all the magic, and you've got a pretty good idea of what The Stolen Child is like. Parents used to use stories about changelings to frighten children into behaving, but the story here is much more likely to bore than frighten. Both the stolen child and the fairy who replaces him suffer serious trauma that leads to severe identity crises, leaving one to lead a "normal" life that isn't any fun, and the other to lead a "magic" life that is even less fun. Rather than enjoying their magical powers, the fairies are reduced to a pathetic "endangered species" whose life become more and more miserable as their habitat shrinks, driving the survivors to suicide.

While this twist on a familiar fairy tale provides some intellectual satisfaction, nobody in the book is having a good time, making it difficult for the reader to do so. The "big revelation" never comes, and the "redemptive ending" is simply a matter of the characters resigning themselves to accept their lot and muddle through as best they can. Oh boy.

Average customer rating: Dark and insightful... Outstanding Prose Stylist haunting Powerful and original

The Stolen Child: A Novel Paul Cody Manufacturer: Baskerville Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | United States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books ASIN: 1880909308

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The story of a child-abductor named Ellis, once a boy named Ford, who was abducted from a Boston suburb in 1963.

Customer Reviews:

Dark and insightful..........2001-05-04

I really dug this book. If you like stories where no one gets out clean, then this is for you. Everyone has a past, and Paul writes it well. At times he even had me feeling sorry for the kidnapper, something that is not so easy to do considering the pain he puts young Ford through. I consider that the sign of a truly good book.

Outstanding Prose Stylist.......2000-05-16

This is a short but powerful first novel that follows the fortunes of a boy that is kidnapped and effectively transformed into a personality distant from his original one. Cody's narrative is not only sympathetic to the boy and the mother and brother he left behind, but also to the abusive kidnapper and to the various teachers, waitresses, and others that cross their escape path. The stream of consciousness narrative elements that emanate from a death row cell reveal Cody as an outstanding prose stylist.

haunting.......1999-08-01

this book shook me up for so long, then i read "deep end of the ocean" and was so disappointed in that being the oprah pick, and a disturbing and moving book like "stolen child" got overlooked. "deep end" i couldn't wait to get through it, it was awful. "stolen child" was so tense and disturbing, a great read. one i think about years later.

Powerful and original.......1996-12-29

I can't remember the last time a book moved me this deeply. Passionate and original, disturbing but never irresponsibly so. This is a book that stays with you

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The Stolen Child A Novel Keith Donohue Manufacturer: Nan. A. Talese ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000P9XR5G

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Allington, or The stolen child: A tale of novel interest R. B Sanford Manufacturer: Printed by J.G. Wells ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00089KCEW

Average customer rating: 10-star novel on teenagers in Singapore

The stolen child: A first novel Colin Cheong Manufacturer: Times Books International ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding British | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books | 18th Century | 19th Century | 20th Century | Classics | Contemporary | General | Historical | Humor | Letters & Correspondence | Middle | Old | Poetry | Renaissance | Shakespeare | Short Stories ASIN: 9971655373

Customer Reviews:

10-star novel on teenagers in Singapore.......2000-12-23

If you want to read a Singaporean novel, read this one. A story of a boy, Wings who experiences the trials and tribulations of being a teenage boy in Singapore in the 80's/90's. In 'The Stolen Child', we take a look into those few years of Wings' life and experience the joy and heartache of being 13 all over again.

Colin Cheong again delivers a work which features characters and places which are hauntingly familiar. His characters come to life from the very beginning, and you find yourself thinking 'I know someone just like that'. In all his books, Colin's characters are so human that you can't help this feeling.

This is a very good book, and that's a gross understatement. It deserves 10 stars, only Amazon gave me 5 stars to work with. Buy this book, read this book, and re-read it again many times. it's money and time well-spent.

Average customer rating: A study in cartoon art

Elfquest - Archives, Volume 3 (Archive Editions (Graphic Novels)) Wendy Pini , and Richard Pini Manufacturer: Elfquest ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General | Comic Strips | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books General | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books General | Graphic Novels | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books Fantasy | Graphic Novels | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books General | Manga | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books Fantasy | Manga | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Pini, Richard | ( P ) | Authors, A-Z | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Subjects | Books Pini, Wendy | ( P ) | Authors, A-Z | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Subjects | Books General | Fantasy | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Subjects | Books Similar Items: Elfquest: Archives, Volume 2 (Elfquest) Elfquest Archives Vol. 1 Elfquest - Archives, Volume 4 (Archive Editions (Graphic Novels)) Elfquest: The Discovery (Elfquest) Elfquest: The Searcher and the Sword ASIN: 1401204120

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This third thrilling volume collects Elfquest #11-15! TheWolfriders are taken as slaves into the towering and mysterious BlueMountain, stronghold of the ancient elves called the Gliders. Featuringall-new lettering, a new cover by Wendy Pini and an introduction by DavidWise Audry Taylor!

Customer Reviews:

A study in cartoon art.......2006-03-10

Wendy Pini is indeed a great artist, and the story represented in the four Archives-series is beautiful and original. I have grown up with these stories, and will probably never get bored with the simple, yet original, sweet and exiting story, together with the lovely drawings of a seldomly talented hand. I recomend this series to people who like beauty and fantasy, together with simplicity and stories that captures you. It is also recomendable to children.

Average customer rating: Wanted this to be good.. Good book with some problems Hollywood Take Heed! Good book, waste of time Thunders of Boredom

Footprints of Thunder James F. David Manufacturer: Tor Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | Thrillers | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books Fantasy | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Subjects | Books | Alternate History | Anthologies | Arthurian | Contemporary | Epic | General | Historical | History & Criticism | Magic & Wizards | Series General | Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Subjects | Books Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books General | Thrillers | Mystery & Thrillers | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books General | Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books All 4-for-3 Deals | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books Similar Items: Thunder of Time Ship of the Damned Before The Cradle Falls Fragments Judgment Day ASIN: 0812524020

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When a freak natural phenomenon dissolves the boundaries between yesterday and today, the world is transformed into a patchwork mixture of the present and the distant past. Entire cities are replaced by primeval forests. Prehistoric monsters stalk modern city streets, hunting for human prey.While ordinary men and women struggle to survive in this strange new world, the president and his advisers search for a way to undo the catastrophe. But the solution may be more devastating than the dinosaurs......

Customer Reviews:

Wanted this to be good.........2007-08-03

...but it simply wasn't. Not only did the author choose one of the least swallowable plots I've come across in the past many years, but he tried to present it in about 1/2 the number of pages it would have needed to be meaningful. Too many characters, too many shifts in perspective, too many sub-plots, and very little satisfyingly wrapped up. There were a few bright points - Granny and her pet dinosaur were cute and diverting, for instance, and some of the other characters were amusingly drawn - but these are not enough for me to recommend the book.

Good book with some problems.......2006-06-09

Unless a book is just seriously bad or encredibly long, I generally get it read in 8-24 hours. I finished this novel in about 18. James David's Footprints of Thunder has a great premise and some excellent storylines, but I must agree with some of the other reviewers - TOO MANY STORYLINES! As well, many of these storylines are completely ignored at the end of the novel and I was left wondering what happened. You don't have to agree with how a book ends, but you should at least get to KNOW how it ends.

All in all, this author had some good ideas and kept my attention the whole way through. I think he just had too many things going on in the novel and couldn't spare the time to wrap them all up and leave us with a sense of satisfaction.

Hollywood Take Heed!.......2006-06-02

Oh...my...God! That's what you'll say throughout this entire novel. A helluva read. I don't even know where to start. This has everything you need for an epic story.

Move over Jurrassic Park! Now why can't Hollywood take this and make a gigantic blockbuster out of it? It would be groundbreaking in ticket sales, no doubt about it.

If you love dinosaurs, along with character rich driven stories, loaded with tons of dino action and adventure - then don't wait - pick this up and voraciously read it.

One of the all-time best novels I've read in qute some time.

Good book, waste of time.......2006-02-03

wow..this guy put a lot of effort into this book. don't bother with this book as you wil get sucked in, enjoy it very much, and then it will end abruptly with no explanation of anything the previous 450+ pages were about.i enjoyed it very much..until the last page. the book just ends. period. no closure. the author created dozens of characters, each real and likeable, with dozens of side plots. there is no mention to any of them. the book just ends. why put so much effort into creating characters, chapters and chapters dedicated to their plights and trials/situations only to leave evything hanging, even the world itself. there is no closure to this book. the idea is sound, the way he wrote it great, but the way he ended it shows his lack of caring about his work; like he justed wanted to finish the book.

Thunders of Boredom.......2005-12-01

I hate to do this, because I know the effort that takes to write a book, but this book was BAD. Great idea but horrible execution, there are tons of characters and several plots running in parallel, and suddenly the book ends leaving half of those plotlines unfinished.

Don't waste your time.

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Footprints of Thunder James F David Manufacturer: Forge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OTNXN8

Average customer rating: Taught Me A lot Filled with real conversations Simply the Best Definitive Apologetics The evidence is overwhelming!

Radio Replies: Three Volume Set Leslie Rumble , Charles M. Carty , and Charles M Carty Manufacturer: T A N Books & Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback General | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books Similar Items: Theology for Beginners Catholicism and Fundamentalism: The Attack on "Romanism" by "Bible Christians" Radio Replies: Volume One Theology and Sanity Faith of the Early Fathers: Three-Volume Set ASIN: 0895551594

Customer Reviews:

Taught Me A lot.......2007-05-13

I learned so much from these books. (I have all 3) They are amazing! Very easy to read and understand, just great!

Filled with real conversations.......2007-03-09

While these volumes are now online, I love having them in print because I can't read for long periods of time in an electronic format. These books are great for every day real questions that people ask about the Catholic Church, from the most common to the most absurd. The two fathers always answer in a frank and honest manner - they do not mince words, but they are charitable. Well in the top 100 Catholic books.

Simply the Best.......2006-11-10

These books are probably the best resource available for someone wishing to learn about Catholicism and faith in general. The authors respond to the toughest questions posed by Protestants, Agnostics, Atheists, and other non-Catholics. The answers are simple, brief, and logical. The only downfall is the fact that they pre-date the Vatican II council; otherwise this set captures the faith quite well, and is indexed by topic. If you are a Catholic looking to expand your knowledge of your religion, or are questioning the beliefs of the Church, I challenge you to read these books. Also, I challenge any Protestant to read the responses of the authors on any doctrine you find difficulty believing. Every question has a strong and complete answer. These books are a must-have!

Definitive Apologetics.......2002-12-07

I covered Volumes One and Two under those listings, so this is about Volume Three. As the series progresses, the questions get harder. Volume Three covers Church dogma and morals in great detail. In particular, the sixty year-old commentary on morals is eerily, sadly prophetic. The consequences of a drift toward complete moral relativism are described as a nightmare scenario, yet how much of it has come to pass--steadily rising divorce, abortion, alienation, violence, division into smaller and smaller groups dedicated only to the advancement of some self-proclaimed social imperative. Undoubtedly, to a non-believer, the prophetic quality of the arguments is the strongest point in their favor. It is not hard to see the moral quagmire we live in (if one only bothers to look), but to see it so clearly when it was just forming--that requires a true vision, a true perspective. For the believer, the truth of the Fathers' arguments is self-evident, for it is simply the Word of God.

The evidence is overwhelming!.......2002-09-04

This three-volume set is considered a classic text of Catholic apologetics. The writing is clear, concise, and relentlessly logical. The arguments put forth are a remarkable combination of common sense, logic, and Scriptural reference. Not only does the book give Protestants, agnostics, humanists, and atheists a lot to think about, it is a fantastic resource for Catholics who desire a full understanding of our religious beliefs and practices, top to bottom. The big difference between Volumes 1 and 2 is that the latter responds to far more challenging questions, delving deeper into the same general topics covered in Volume 1.

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