Sweeping Up the Heart [Paperback]

Paul W. Nisly (Author)

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Nisly writes eloquently and intimately of his grief and religious and family struggles after the automobile-accident death of his daughter four months after her college graduation. His account is enhanced by a wide range of literary and biblical texts and by his honest questioning, deep anguish, gentle reflection, and obvious love as well as by the faith, hope, and healing which have sustained him through this ordeal. Appropriate for public libraries.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: Good Books (May 25, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156148069X
• ISBN-13: 978-1561480692
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,066,951 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent, Subjective, Profound Faith, January 18, 2004

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William P. Fogle "Williepee" (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sweeping Up the Heart (Paperback)

Paul Nisly was my main professor of English over 20 years ago. This book about the sudden accidental death of his teenaged daughter (and most likely the most vibrant member of his household during her life) was written quite a few years after I left the college at which Nisly teaches. Nisly is what I saw then as a "subjective intellectual": extremely intelligent, but also deeply sensitive and unwilling to ignore either gift, either perspective, on personal experience. His bravely retold passage through the experience of this vibrant young girl's death is like few things I have read in my life. It is one of few memoirs of its kind, combining a broad, Renaissance intellect with deep personal sensitivity--I am reminded of C.S. Lewis. I was lucky to have known and studied under Dr. Nisly. If you are a Christian or (and especially if) you are not, buy this book and enjoy it, learn from it. Its equal will be a very long time coming.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An insightful view into the authors soul, April 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Sweeping Up the Heart (Paperback)

This is a record of the soul searching that the father of Janelle Nisly, Paul Nisly did after the unexpected death of his daughter 4 months after her graduation from college. In this, he stuggles with questions of suffering and why christians suffer. It lead me to tears, and it will do the same to you, even if you've never experienced such a traumatic experience.