Here is a book that is absolutely addictive reading and a joy to bring into one's life.
The walk to paradise garden is of course the walk of life itself -- of a life, lives, well lived: about the shape of two entire lives from young adulthood onward. From a battlefield in World War I to the board room of a major corporation in Chicago in the 1960s, we follow John and Evie, two intelligent people of no exceptional talent but courage and a capacity for love, not only for each other but for those who take part in their lives or need their help. Sometimes their love is dangerously misplaced, but even then they eventually regain their balance, their moral poise.
Before publishers began a contest among themselves to find who could "capture the market" with the most violent and vile books, reading was looked upon as a healthy broadening of the mind, a view into how people coped with the challenges of life without succumbing to bitterness or loathsome appetites. This is a book that gallantly opposes that ugliness and horror with a riveting story of kindness.
And it's superbly written. Campbell's extraordinary strength as a writer is in the details, never so much as to weigh the pace, but precisely the amount to create a perfectly vivid, cinematic picture. Do furnish your mind with this fine and thought provoking story.
The walk to paradise garden is of course the walk of life itself -- of a life, lives, well lived: about the shape of two entire lives from young adulthood onward. From a battlefield in World War I to the board room of a major corporation in Chicago in the 1960s, we follow John and Evie, two intelligent people of no exceptional talent but courage and a capacity for love, not only for each other but for those who take part in their lives or need their help. Sometimes their love is dangerously misplaced, but even then they eventually regain their balance, their moral poise.
Before publishers began a contest among themselves to find who could "capture the market" with the most violent and vile books, reading was looked upon as a healthy broadening of the mind, a view into how people coped with the challenges of life without succumbing to bitterness or loathsome appetites. This is a book that gallantly opposes that ugliness and horror with a riveting story of kindness.
And it's superbly written. Campbell's extraordinary strength as a writer is in the details, never so much as to weigh the pace, but precisely the amount to create a perfectly vivid, cinematic picture. Do furnish your mind with this fine and thought provoking story.