When Bad Things Happen to Good People - Softcover

Kushner, Harold S

Softcover

ISBN 10: 038067033X ISBN 13: 9780380670338

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 1983

Synopsis

A distinguished clergyman offers advice to people of all faiths on how to come to terms with suffering and loss and explains how a belief in God can help readers to experience comfort and understanding. Reissue.

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Review:

Rarely does a book come along that tackles a perennially difficult human issue with such clarity and intelligence. Harold Kushner, a Jewish rabbi facing his own child's fatal illness, deftly guides us through the inadequacies of the traditional answers to the problem of evil, then provides a uniquely practical and compassionate answer that has appealed to millions of readers across all religious creeds. Remarkable for its intensely relevant real-life examples and its fluid prose, this book cannot go unread by anyone who has ever been troubled by the question, "Why me?"

From the Inside Flap:

When Harold Kushner's three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease and that he would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life's most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts and fears that arise when tragedy strikes. Kushner shares his wisdom as a rabbi, a parent, a reader, and a human being. Often imitated but never superseded, When Bad Things Happen to Good People is a classic that offers clear thinking and consolation in times of sorrow.
Since its original publication in 1981," When Bad Things Happen to Good People has brought solace and hope to millions of readers and its author has become a nationally known spiritual leader.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 038067033X
• ISBN 13: 9780380670338
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 149