Draw Your Weapons

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Pub Date 27 Jul 2017 | Archive Date 11 Jul 2017
Text Publishing | Text Publishing UK

Description

Essential reading in a time of global upheaval—a unique, impassioned and vital guide to peaceful, creative resistance in a violent era.

‘Now more than ever, the world needs a book like Draw Your Weapons. With mastery, urgency and great courage, Sarah Sentilles investigates the histories of art, violence, war and human survival.’—Ruth Ozeki


‘A unique and necessary book.’—John Jeremiah Sullivan

Sarah Sentilles was almost ordained as a priest before she began writing the stories of two men differently affected by war. One is a former soldier who had been stationed at Abu Ghraib, and the other a conscientious objector during World War II. Both men respond to war, and reclaim their dignity, in the same way—by making art.


With echoes of Maggie Nelson and Susan Sontag, Sentilles uses a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature and theology to try to make a language for making sense of this imperfect world.


Draw Your Weapons is an utterly original meditation on art and war that wrestles with our most profound questions. It will transform the way you see the world.

Essential reading in a time of global upheaval—a unique, impassioned and vital guide to peaceful, creative resistance in a violent era.

‘Now more than ever, the world needs a book like Draw Your...


A Note From the Publisher

A former theologian, Sarah Sentilles completed her undergraduate degree at Yale and both masters and a doctorate at Harvard. She was a college professor for over a decade before becoming a full-time writer. Her previous books are Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton, A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit and Breaking Up With God: A Love Story. She lives in
Idaho’s Wood River Valley.

A former theologian, Sarah Sentilles completed her undergraduate degree at Yale and both masters and a doctorate at Harvard. She was a college professor for over a decade before becoming a full-time...


Advance Praise

‘You will be riveted, educated, implicated, and changed by this book.’—Emily Rapp, author of The Still Point of the Turning World


‘A beautiful, haunting book so original that it is a genre unto itself…I won’t be able to think of our era of constant conflict without recalling Sentilles’s lessons, her imagery, and her prophetic voice.’—Franklin Foer


‘A beautiful, harrowing, and moving collage…Every reader will feel profoundly changed by it.’—Alice Elliott Dark, author of In The Gloaming


‘Fearless, stirring…this book pulses with energy and is full of insights, dark yet ultimately
hopeful.’—Nick Flynn, author of The Reenactments

‘You will be riveted, educated, implicated, and changed by this book.’—Emily Rapp, author of The Still Point of the Turning World


‘A beautiful, haunting book so original that it is a genre unto...


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ISBN 9781911231141
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