The Sacred Journey (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Frederick Buechner
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1926-1954
- Setting: The United States and Bermuda
- Principal Characters: Frederick Buechner, Grandma Buechner, Naya
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Spiritual life or spirituality, Christianity, Faith, Lifestyles
Form and Content
The Sacred Journey is a narrative of Frederick Buechner’s first twenty-seven years of life, interspersed with the insights he gained from remembering and telling the story.
The book begins with an introduction and then is divided into three parts: “Once Below a Time,” which describes his life until he was ten, up to the day his father killed himself; “Once upon a Time,” the account of his years from ten to seventeen, when he was graduated from preparatory school; and “Beyond Time,” which tells of the next ten years until he started...
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