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    Finding Peter: A True Story of the Hand of Providence and Evidence of Life after Death
    Finding Peter: A True Story of the Hand of Providence and Evidence of Life after Death
    Finding Peter: A True Story of the Hand of Providence and Evidence of Life after Death
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    Finding Peter: A True Story of the Hand of Providence and Evidence of Life after Death

    By William Peter Blatty

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    A New York Times Bestseller!

    For those who have lost a loved one to that liar and fraud named Death.

    So reads the dedication of William Peter Blatty's Finding Peter, a deeply moving memoir that tests the bounds of grief, love, and the soul. Blatty, the bestselling author and Oscar Awardwinning screenwriter of The Exorcist, lived a charmed life among the elite stars of Hollywood.

    His son Peter, born over a decade after The Exorcist, grew from an apple-cheeked boy into an "imposing young man with a quick, warm smile." But when Peter died very suddenly from a rare disorder, Blatty's world turned upside down.

    As he and his wife struggled through their unrelenting grief, a series of strange and supernatural events began occurringand Blatty became convinced that Peter was sending messages from the afterlife.

    A true and unabashedly personal story, Finding Peter will shake the most cynical of readersand it will remind those in grief that our loved ones do truly live on.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRegnery
    Release dateMar 30, 2015
    ISBN9781621573906
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    William Peter Blatty

    William Peter Blatty (1928-2017) is best known for his mega-bestselling novel The Exorcist. Blatty also cowrote the screenplay of the hilarious Inspector Clouseau film, A Shot in the Dark. Known for his early comic novels, the New York Times proclaimed that "nobody can write funnier lines than William Peter Blatty," describing him as "a gifted virtuoso who writes like S. J. Perelman."

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      To say that you "enjoyed" this book really takes a little work. Peter Blatty puts his heart and soul into making the reader meet, and love his son, Peter. He tells us little things about his child...much like any proud parent would do...however because of the huge impact that his movie The Exorcist has had Peter Blatty Has already had the aura of otherworldly occurrences...scary and divine things attached to him...so getting the reader to see and understand that what he believes about his son has noting to do with the movie...and is to him, real. I found the book both hilariously funny and profoundly moving... a rare combination in any book...and Blatty pulled it off in spades. It didn't matter if I or you believe that he communicated with Peter...he believed it and it helped to bring him comfort after the death of his child.

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