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Peter Manseau

Peter Manseau is the author of Vows and coauthor of Killing the Buddha. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. A founding editor of the award-winning webzine KillingTheBuddha.com, he is now the editor of Search, The Magazine of Science, Religion, and Culture. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Washington, D.C., where he studies religion and teaches writing at Georgetown University.

Peter Manseau's Books

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Songs for the Butcher's Daughter Browse Inside Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter A Novel By: Peter Manseau
This edition: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publication date: September 9, 2008
Itsik Malpesh was born the son of a goose-plucking factory manager during the Russian pogroms - his life saved on the night it began by the young daughter of a kosher slaughterer. Or so he believes...Exiled during the war,...
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Vows
Vows The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son By: Peter Manseau
This edition: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publication date: October 17, 2006
Vows is a compelling story of one family's unshakable faith that to be called is to serve, however high the cost may be. Peter Manseau's riveting evocation of his parents' parallel childhoods, their similar callings, their...
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Killing the Buddha
Killing the Buddha A Heretic's Bible By: Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: December 30, 2003
Now in paperback -- the book that caused a religious and critically acclaimed stir. Publishers Weekly called it "the most original and insightful spiritual writing to come out of America since Jack Kerouac first hit the road."...
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