Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense - Hardcover

"The man writes like a dream."--The Guardian

"A subtle, witty, clever writer."--The Observer

"Catnip for atheists, agnostics, believers, disbelievers and people who like to think and wonder."--Chicago Tribune

"Spufford exhibits his trademark brilliance, humor, and acumen, demolishing the intellectual emptiness of the New Atheism along the way. Richly rewarding to mind and heart, and a fine example of one of the era's best writers at full tilt. "--Library Journal

"Spufford is one of the most gifted English writers of his generation...Unapologetic captures the texture of today's life of faith, faith always ever-so-slightly but also ever-so-constantly eaten away at by uncertainty, by the possibility of a truly disenchanted world, a wholly material life."--Books & Culture

Mr. Spufford is an amused and amusing observer of human beings, and it is a pleasure to be in his company. --Dwight Garner, "The New York Times""

Francis Spufford is one of the cleverest and most thoughtful nonfiction writers in England. "Unapologetic" is exactly what those who ve followed Spufford s career might have suspected it would be: an incredibly smart, challenging, and beautiful book, humming with ideas and arguments. --Nick Hornby"

A remarkable book, which is passionate, challenging, tumultuously articulate, and armed with anger to a degree unusual in works of Christian piety. --Sunday Times (London)"

The man writes like a dream. --The Guardian"

A subtle, witty, clever writer. --The Observer"

In this uncompromising defense of Christianity, a former atheist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature offers a ruthlessly realistic account of the grown-up dignity of Christian experience that will satisfy both believers and non-believers alike. 20,000 first printing.