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Now, Brooks takes on one of literature’s richest and most enigmatic figures: a man who shimmers between history and legend. “A page turner .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns:  love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality.” – Alice Hoffman, The Washington PostA rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of People of the Book and March. With more than two million copies of her novels sold, New York Times bestselling author Geraldine Brooks has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. Peeling away the myth to bring David to life in Second Iron Age Israel, Brooks traces the arc of his journey from obscurity to fame, from shepherd to soldier, from hero to traitor, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage.The Secret Chord provides new con

""They say you are the king's conscience."" according to Biblioholic Beth. King David. A man like any other, though one who triumphs and fails in spectacular fashion. One whose life lives on in the words of the Bible. Yet, there is so much more to a life than what any Bible can capture - particularly a life such as his. In ". "They say you are the king's conscience." E. Bukowsky "The Secret Chord," by Geraldine Brooks, is a novelization of King David's life, narrated by Nathan, who counseled the sovereign for many years. As the scorned youngest son of Yishai, David spends most of his days tending his father's sheep in the wil. A Look at the Dark Side of a Hero Sandra Cody I started The Secret Chord with high hopes because I've enjoyed other books by Geraldine Brooks so much and because I know that David was a complex man, much more than the boy with the slingshot whose story we all learned as children. Brooks did an ex

Brooks, but The Secret Chord won me over.  Its storytelling magic is as timeless as the tale it tells.”—The San Francisco Chronicle                                                                  “It’s this David – gifted artist, vainglorious alpha male, conflicted husband and father – that we meet in The Secret Chord, the beautiful, subtle, grave new novel by Geraldine Brooks .The Secret Chord paints a fresh portrait of

Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha’s Vineyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Her most recent novel, Caleb’s Crossing, was the winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Christianity Today Book Award, and was a finalist for the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction. Geraldine Brooks