In the Heart of the Heart

Charles Taylor does not want to leave people out of his books, and so he writes in a reader friendly style. He does not accept the notion that to be art writing must be obscure or inaccessible. What a nasty trick to play on readers who love books. In this book you will find the past and the present, the grumpy and the funny, the family and the country, the political and the personal, all tied together by a search for the heart in the heart, the mystical center of things. Like the writings in prose and poetry of Jack Kerouac, Taylor's book moves beyond the secular tradition of modern writing into landscapes of the spiritual.