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Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage (Random House Large Print) Paperback – Large Print, April 13, 2021
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From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow comes an inspiring guide to restoring hope and joy in our lives.
In Dusk, Night, Dawn, Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with. How can we recapture the confidence we once had as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad newspiles up—from climate crises to daily assaults on civility—how can we cope? Where, she asks, “do we start to get our world and joy and hope and our faith in life itself back . . . with our sore feet, hearing loss, stiff fingers, poor digestion, stunned minds, broken hearts?”
We begin, Lamott says, by accepting our flaws and embracing our humanity.
Drawing from her own experiences, Lamott shows us the intimate and human ways we can adopt to move through life’s dark places and toward the light of hope that still burns ahead for all of us.
As she does in Help, Thanks, Wow and her other bestselling books, Lamott explores the thorny issues of life and faith by breaking them down into manageable, human-sized questions for readers to ponder, in the process showing us how we can amplify life's small moments of joy by staying open to love and connection. As Lamott notes in Dusk, Night, Dawn, “I got Medicare three days before I got hitched, which sounds like something an old person might do, which does not describe adorably ageless me.” Marrying for the first time with a grown son and a grandson, Lamott explains that finding happiness with a partner isn't a function of age or beauty but of outlook and perspective.
Full of the honesty, humor, and humanity that have made Lamott beloved by millions of readers, Dusk, Night, Dawn is classic Anne Lamott—thoughtful and comic, warm and wise—and further proof that Lamott truly speaks to the better angels in all of us.
- Print length272 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRandom House Large Print
- Publication dateApril 13, 2021
- Dimensions4.69 x 0.67 x 8 inches
- ISBN-100593395735
- ISBN-13978-0593395738
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- Publisher : Random House Large Print; Large type / Large print edition (April 13, 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0593395735
- ISBN-13 : 978-0593395738
- Item Weight : 7.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 4.69 x 0.67 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #510,003 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,099 in Spiritual Self-Help (Books)
- #4,676 in Christian Self Help
- #12,116 in Personal Transformation Self-Help
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Anne Lamott is the New York Times bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; Stitches; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; Traveling Mercies; Bird by Bird; Operating Instructions, and the forthcoming Hallelujah Anyway. She is also the author of several novels, including Imperfect Birds and Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.
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Customers find the book meaningful, uplifting, and edifying. They describe it as an easy, enjoyable read with humor that makes them laugh and cry. Readers praise the author's writing style as brilliant, relatable, and honest. They appreciate the author's compassion and gentleness in her observations of life and love. Overall, customers find the book lovely and charming.
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Customers find the book meaningful, uplifting, and touching. They mention it's edifying, offers courage, and reminds them of what it is to be human. Readers also say it's a great book to consider during hard times.
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Customers find the book easy to read and engaging. They appreciate the straightforward writing style and the author's message of hope. The collection of essays is described as a joyous, real, and enlightening experience.
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Customers find the book humorous and entertaining. They appreciate the author's good-natured humor and original perspective on life. The book provides valuable tips and reminds readers of what it means to be human.
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"...Laugh outloud as well as heartbreaking, but for sure every emotion we deal with daily. I read the book. Opened it to page one and started it again." Read more
"...of Anne Lamott know that she is a tiny bit neurotic, but she is good-humored about it for the most part. That's true with this book as well...." Read more
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Customers enjoy the writing style. They find the author relatable and inspiring. The book is an easy read and a favorite author.
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"I love Anne Lamott's writing style....honest, to the point, no foo foo, and real. Something we all can relate too...." Read more
"...Lamott is a good writer and I don't want to disparage her skill, but I want to ask, "How long is your journey going to take and are we there yet?"" Read more
Customers appreciate the book's honesty. They find it raw and relatable, describing it as honest and real.
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Customers appreciate the author's human compassion. They find her gentle and humorous in her observations of life and love. The book explores her humanity and through it, readers get to explore their own.
"...Most important to me is the subject of self-forgiveness that Anne treats so deftly and with such self compassion...." Read more
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"...The antidote to hate and fear is love. Love is patient, love is kind. Not arrogant, dishonorable or selfish. It delights in truth...." Read more
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Customers enjoy the book's charm, humor, and original perspective on life. They find it entertaining and insightful, opening up a new perspective on living.
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- Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2021A little over a month ago, on March 8th, 2021, I marked what would have been my grandfather’s 100th birthday. (My grandfather died nearly 18 years ago, on December 13th, 2003.) Throughout that week, I contemplated my grandfather’s life. Selfishly, I wished he were still alive just so that I could go to him for advice, to hear his consoling voice, to have his strong hand touch my shoulder, and to hear him tell me that he is proud of the person I have become.
Looking for some means to feel my grandfather’s presence in any tangible (or intangible) way possible, I piddled around with some various affects I have of his to cherish. I remembered that I had several of my grandfather's books on my bookshelf beside my own. Among these is Anne Lamott’s “Bird By Bird”. I took it off the bookshelf. I tell the truth when I say that I have not looked at the book in years, and, sad to say it, I have not read much more beyond its cover.
I thumbed through the book. Marked on several pages were some annotations he made. On many more pages, with a pencil he traced a line under passages that must have made an impression upon him. Through this, I regathered that sense of my grandfather’s inquisitiveness, his constant searching for an elusive, fleeting, and perhaps, esoteric meaning of life. I remembered his ability to see humor in everything, especially in his own folly. I gathered the sense of how he would have seen Mrs. Lamott as platonic soul given his lack of patience for social pretense and superficial bulls#!t.
I believe Anne must have greatly influenced my grandfather’s autobiographical writings. Perhaps inspired by “Bird by Bird”, he wrote simply yet saw things profoundly. He did not withhold thoughts some of us might be afraid to share because they leave us vulnerable. I deeply miss having that voice in my daily life, and that weighed heavy on me throughout that week.
A week later, on Monday, March 16th, I was still feeling melancholy. There are many mornings when I’ve asked myself, “what would you do, grandpa?” or “what would you say?” I remember that morning was another of those mornings. I otherwise went about my usual routine with tuning into Minnesota Public Radio as part of that routine. By golly, who was on Kerri Miller's show that day… Anne Lamott!
The subject of discussion was "Dust, Night, Dawn". In a way that felt strangely cosmic, as if it were some kind of heavenly intercession. Grandpa was telling me, … “hey, check out Anne’s new book.” I bought it immediately.
I read the book in two reading sessions, as it was a page turner for me. I cried a few good cries. I connected with the inner voice that Anne lays bare on the page. It is that narrative voice within (most?) of us that perhaps the Greeks called the “nous.” (I may be going out of my lane on that one.) Most important to me is the subject of self-forgiveness that Anne treats so deftly and with such self compassion. Another reviewer characterizes Anne’s writing as “self-indulgent.” I couldn’t disagree more. Perhaps so-called, perceived “self-indulgence” is necessary to know oneself. By any means we take to the hard work of knowing ourselves and righting the ways we wrong ourselves with a lack of self-compassion, I aspire to that path. Anne endeavors to show the way with this book.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2021Over the years, the words of Anne Lamott have helped me through some very difficult and challenging times in my life: my son’s addiction, my father’s death, an extended period of unemployment, and a cancerous tumor on my kidney, to name just a few. So, it came as no surprise whatsoever that Dusk Night Dawn: On Revival and Courage found its way into my hands the same week my father-in-law had a massive stroke and lay in a hospital bed with a very uncertain future. (Cue “Twilight Zone” theme song here.)
I am incredibly grateful for Anne Lamott and her writings. (So much so that I started the Anne Lamott Quotes account on Twitter, which you should definitely go follow!) To be honest, I’ve pretty much fallen in love with every book she’s ever written. (Full disclosure: I haven’t read any of her novels!) That’s why my brand new love affair with Dusk Night Dawn was entirely predictable. But, even though I may be a bit biased, please trust me: This one’s another winner.
Annie tells it like it is and, quite often, tells it like she wishes it was. After all, she admits to us that “most of my life force goes into trying to self-will life and me into cooperating with how I think things should be.” On the other hand, though, she seems to be making some progress in her “third third” (love that term!) of life. “I am slowly making my way from a hypnotized engine of delusion and self-obsession to being a bit more real, a smidge more alive more often. I’ll take it. I am learning to live more often in reckless love.”
Speaking of love, that’s covered in Dusk Night Dawn, too, as Annie frequently talks about her still-relatively-new marriage to her soulmate, Neal. Sure, she loves and adores him, but that doesn’t mean he’s not a target at times. “When I’m watching him, I observe what a tall, nice-looking, thoughtful focused know-it-all he is. He comes from a family of know-it-alls. His brothers are just like him. I love them, but at our family vacations it is like Wikipedia with PMS.”
My favorite essays in Dusk Night Dawn are probably “Lunch-Money Faith” and “Light Breezes.” In “Lunch-Money Faith,” Annie talks about her friend Terri who, one day at church, told her, “I have made a life and career out of being a good sport…And I am worn out.” Annie concurs. “Me too. I am sick and tired of being such a good sport and worker bee, chin up and adorably ironic, while we notice how much worse things have grown.” Amen to that. Aren’t we all just a little tired at this point?
Meanwhile, in “Light Breezes” Annie explores one of my favorite “D” words: Dread. As a lifelong catastrophizer, I can easily relate to what Lamott calls “my most reliable companion, always there for me, like God in a bad mood,” sharing with us that “Dread was my governess growing up.” She adds, “If Dread is not still right there at my side, she’s there in the wings, humming her hymns, drumming her fingers, knowing there is always a place for her in my heart. Life will push her call button.”
In true Anne Lamott fashion, though, there is lots of positivity in Dusk Night Dawn, too. “Yes, these are times of great illness and distress,” Annie writes. “Yet the center may just hold.” She also posits that “Hope springs from realizing we are loved, can love, and are love with skin on. Then we are unstoppable.”
Dusk Night Dawn is classic Anne Lamott, full of observation, honesty, sarcasm, positivity, self-deprecating humor (“I have a doctorate in morbid reflection.”), and the occasional eff bomb (“Never disobey Sunday school teachers. They will f*ck with you.”). If you need a little bit of hope and courage, do yourself a favor and read this book. And remember: “The kitten isn’t dead. The kitten is in the living room.” (You’ll have to read the book to understand the meaning of that!)
- Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2025I enjoyed the book overall...I could relate to the experiences..feelings..there was a part where she rambled or got stuck on a memory or feeling..I needed her to move on ...but read all her books..always get a giggle 😉
- Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2024Annie is a gifted writer who offers real life humor and insight. Laugh outloud as well as heartbreaking, but for sure every emotion we deal with daily. I read the book. Opened it to page one and started it again.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2023I bought this item used and it was in great condition so kudos there!
As far as the book goes it's an easy read and the author is very relatable. Was more religious than I'm used to but she didn't shove religion at you just shared it as part of her life and story. It was uplifting and real and would recommend to others!
- Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2021Is Anne Lamott becoming more fearful, neurotic and delusional?
I've read all her non-fiction, and most was interesting, even edifying at times.
It seems as if she assumes all her readers are as anxious and crazed as she is, at least in this book of essays.
There was some good stuff, but she seems weirder than ever. Sometimes in this one, she seems to wander, and the conclusion does not exactly follow the lead up.
Plus she uses "we, we're, our" when she should say "I, I'm or mine." It's like she's trying to drag the reader into her quite severe disorders. I suspect she's trying to identify with the reader, but it doesn't come out that way.
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Thomas BürkiReviewed in Germany on July 27, 2024
1.0 out of 5 stars Schlechtes Buch
Geplauder ohne Inhalt und Struktur.
- MichelleReviewed in Canada on April 19, 2021
3.0 out of 5 stars Nothing to sink my teeth into.
Anne is obviously very authentic and charming, however I felt like there was nothing to 'sink my teeth into', so to speak. I would invest time into her other work.
MichelleNothing to sink my teeth into.
Reviewed in Canada on April 19, 2021
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