Pulitzer Prize Finalist

“A remarkable book. … [A] true work of art.”–Atlantic Monthly

“In the extraordinary figure of Godric, both stubborn outsider and true child of God, both worldly and unworldly, Frederick Buechner has found an ideal means of exploring the nature of spirituality. Godric is a living battleground where God fights it out with the world, the Flesh, and the Devil.”–London Times Literary Supplement

Winner of the M.L.A. Christianity and Literature Book Award for Belles Lettres

“Strikingly convincing … sinewy and lyrical.”–The New York Times Book Review

“A lusty, bawdy, teeming, festooning, dancing marvel of a book. Within its crafty interlacings, we can read its buoyant meaning: that life, for all its woes, is essentially a comedy.”–The Los Angeles Times Book Review

“An artistic triumph.”–Publishers Weekly

“With profound intelligence, Buechner’s novel does what the finest, most appealing literature does:  It displays and illuminates the seemingly unrelated mysteries of human character and ultimate ideas.”–Annie Dillard, Boston Globe

“A masterpiece.”–National Catholic Reporter

“This is an extraordinary novel that demonstrates both the truth of fiction and Buechner’s superb ability to offer it.”–Christian Century

“A wonderfully human and satisfying meditative romance. A marvelous adaptation of Shakespeare—one of the best ever.”–Kirkus Reviews

“For all its charm and lilt, The Storm, like any among Buechner’s best novels, cannot be taken lightly.”–The San Diego Reader

“Like other fine books by Frederick Buechner, The Storm is highly original and delights and surprises from first page to last.”–George Garrett, author of Death of the Fox

“In the character of Leo Bebb, Buechner has created a wild and canny charlatan who might also be a genius.”–The Boston Globe

“The way Buechner writes is special and engaging—serious, comic, with a kind of reverent irreverence for his people and their lives.”–Publishers Weekly

“Buechner brings the reader to his knees, sometimes in laughter, sometimes in an astonishment very close to prayer, and at the best of times in a combination of both.”–The New York Times Book Review

“It sings and dances, wealthy with laughter and deeply moving. Buechner is as good as we have.”–George Garrett, The Washington Post

“Buechner’s characteristic humor is here, along with the pithy insights that may become gems in sermons.”–W. Dale Brown, The Christian Century

“This clergyman can tell a story that has a theological dimension without sounding sanctimonious or trite, partly because his writing style is based on contemporary speech and partly because his turn of mind is ironic, unsentimental.”–The New York Times Book Review, Alfred Corn

“This daring, graceful little book is a powerful profession of faith.”–Detroit Free Press

“Plainly told, gently nuanced, the story has appeal for those who believe in the healing power of memory.”–Publishers Weekly

“[He] has been one of our most celebrated storytellers.”–USA Today

“This is a story that skates with daring skill and exuberant speed over the thin ice of potential blasphemy, sentimentality, and violence to emerge finally on the firm, smooth surface of honest faith and uproarious laughter.”–Katherine Gauss Jackson, Harper’s Magazine

“Here is the rarest of the rare in contemporary fiction:  a novel devoted to the celebration of faith and joy.”–Lee Whiston, United Church Herald

“Buechner has given us a beautifully written, sensitive novel in The Final Beast.”–The Episcopalian

“Written with remarkable virtuosity.”–Saturday Review of Literature

“A study in nuance of character and atmosphere, this is delicately oriented and finely drawn.”–Kirkus Reviews

“A Long Day’s Dying is full of questions as to how a life might be lived.”–Dale Brown

Winner of the Rosenthal Award

“Mr. Buechner has written an extraordinarily dramatic story.”–Charles Poore, The New York Times

“This is a mature piece of work.”–Literary News

“Mr. Buechner casts his own particular, brilliantly indirect illumination on a private world that is luxurious, comfortable, furnished with intelligence and a certain charm, possessed of intense loyalty to itself and its members, and generous, with polite and sensible reservations, to outsiders.”–The New Yorker