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  • How Dante Can Save Your Life

  • The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem
  • By: Rod Dreher
  • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
  • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)
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How Dante Can Save Your Life

By: Rod Dreher
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Summary

Following the death of his little sister and the publication of his New York Times best-selling memoir The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Rod Dreher found himself living in the small community of Starhill, Louisiana, where he grew up. But instead of the fellowship he hoped to find, he discovered that fault lines within his family had deepened. Dreher spiraled into depression and a stress-related autoimmune disease. Doctors told Dreher that if he didn't find inner peace, he would destroy his health. Soon after, he came across The Divine Comedy in a bookstore and was enchanted by its first lines, which seemed to describe his own condition.

In the months that followed, Dante helped Dreher understand the mistakes and mistaken beliefs that had torn him down and showed him that he had the power to change his life. Dreher knows firsthand the solace and strength that can be found in Dante's great work and distills its wisdom for those who are lost in the dark wood of depression, struggling with failure (or success), wrestling with a crisis of faith, alienated from their families or communities, or otherwise enduring the sense of exile that is the human condition.

Inspiring, revelatory, and packed with penetrating spiritual, moral, and psychological insights, How Dante Can Save Your Life is a book for people, both religious and secular, who find themselves searching for meaning and healing. Dante told his patron that he wrote his poem to bring readers from misery to happiness. It worked for Rod Dreher.

Dante saved Rod Dreher's life. And in this audiobook, Dreher shows you how Dante can save yours.

©2015 Rod Dreher (P)2015 Tantor

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"As a well-written chronicle of choice between the 'success' of big cities and life in the far simpler world of old traditions and deep family ties..." ( Kirkus)

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Dante plays Virgil to a troubled soul!

After 700 years the genius of Dante still continues to captivate minds and lead them ever deeper into the spiritual life. Lots of rich insights in this book and they are well applied to the author’s life. My only reluctance in promoting it to others would be that the author has allowed the “face of Medusa” to drive him out of full communion with the Church. I say this with both compassion and respect for the writer who makes public his struggles with great honesty. Scandal is indeed a terrible thing, but like Dante, we must have the wisdom to stand firm nonetheless.

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Thoroughly engaging book

I have been circling in and around Dante for over a year. This book has really encouraged me to plough on past inferno to purgatorial and paradiso

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I didn't like the tone and couldn't finish. Sounded spoilt I couldn't empathize with the author.

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