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The Story of B

By Daniel Quinn
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Publisher Description

From the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning bestseller Ishmael and its sequel, My Ishmael, comes a powerful novel with one of the most profound spiritual testaments of our time
 
“A compelling ‘humantale’ that will unglue, stun, shock, and rearrange everything you’ve learned and assume about Western civilization and our future.”—Paul Hawken, author of The Ecology of Commerce
 
Father Jared Osborne has received an extraordinary assignment from his superiors: Investigate an itinerant preacher stirring up deep trouble in central Europe. His followers call him B, but his enemies say he’s something else: the Antichrist. However, the man Osborne tracks across a landscape of bars, cabarets, and seedy meeting halls is no blasphemous monster—though an earlier era would undoubtedly have rushed him to the burning stake. For B claims to be enunciating a gospel written not on any stone or parchment but in our very genes, opening up a spiritual direction for humanity that would have been unimaginable to any of the prophets or saviors of traditional religion. Pressed by his superiors for a judgement, Osborne is driven to penetrate B’s inner circle, where he soon finds himself an anguished collaborator in the dismantling of his own religious foundations. 
 
More than a masterful novel of adventure and suspense, The Story of B is a rich source of compelling ideas from an author who challenges us to rethink our most cherished beliefs.
 
Explore Daniel Quinn’s spiritual Ishmael trilogy: 
ISHMAEL • MY ISHMAEL • THE STORY OF B

157 Reviews

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Thinking Face“This book is as close to my bible as any book can be. It changed my entire world view into something i am so proud to think and believe. I think everyone should read this book at some time in their life.”
“Loved the book, sped through part 3 fastest because things took a TURN. I think I liked it better than I liked Ishmael (and I really liked Ishmael)- it had more of a plot, ended with a humbling call to action, and I felt like the characters were more relatable. It was also a bit easier to absorb the teachings because they were written like lectures and such. I think my only complaints would be the structure of putting the lectures in the back, and the fact that Jared and Shirin didn’t get more of a romance plot (mostly kidding about that one buuuuuut it did feel like they were building toward more than they got)”
“Again, a beautiful piece of writing that will leave me thinking for years to come. I don’t know how to describe it as an easy read that also makes you question your whole worldview? I guess I would call it “digestible” for what it is. Incredible.”

About Daniel Quinn

Daniel Quinn grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and studied at St. Louis University, the University of Vienna, and Loyola University of Chicago. He worked in Chicago-area publishing for twenty years before beginning work on the book for which he is best known, Ishmael. In 1991, this book was chosen from among some 2,500 international entrants in the Turner Tomorrow competition to win the half-million dollar prize for a novel offering “creative and positive solutions to global problems.” It has subsequently sold more than a million copies in English, is available in some thirty languages, and has been used in high schools and colleges worldwide in courses as varied as philosophy, geography, ecology, archaeology, history, biology, zoology, anthropology, political science, economics, and sociology. Subsequent works include Providence, The Story of B, My Ishmael: A Sequel, Beyond Civilization, After Dachau, The Holy, At Woomeroo, The Invisibility of Success, and The Teachings. Daniel Quinn died in 2018.

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