Following Merton’s advice, Quinn left the Abbey and gave up on his dream of becoming a monk. Before he became a writer, Quinn intended to be a Trappist monk, studying under the theologian Thomas Merton at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Bardstown, Kentucky.
→ Buy NEW on Bookshop from $16.56 (affiliate)ĭaniel Quinn was an American freelance writer and author from Omaha, Nebraska. → Buy USED on Better World Books from $3.98 (affiliate) The book garnered praise from Ray Bradbury and has been taught in high schools and universities around the United States. Before its publication, Ishmael won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship as a work of fiction that offered excellent solutions to global problems. To correct this, humans must re-examine their fundamental beliefs about their place in the world and work towards creating a future where all life can thrive. Written as a Socratic dialogue between a gorilla with the ability to speak telepathically, Ishmael, and an unnamed narrator, the book argues that the way modern humans live is unsustainable.
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn ( buy on Bookshop from $16.56) is a work of philosophical ecofiction that was published in 1992.
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