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

by William Peter Blatty Narrated by Mel Foster

Overview

William Peter Blatty, the bestselling author and Oscar Award-winning 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 occurring, and Blatty became convinced that Peter was sending messages from the afterlife.



A true and unabashedly personal story, Finding Peter will remind those in grief that our loved ones truly do live on.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"The author of the scariest movie ever made is also an endearing writer and laugh-out-loud hilarious. This book is as entertaining as it is profound." ---Dinesh D'Souza, author of Life After Death: The Evidence

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"The author of the scariest movie ever made is also an endearing writer and laugh-out-loud hilarious. This book is as entertaining as it is profound." —Dinesh D'Souza, author of Life After Death: The Evidence

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170659197
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	06/02/2015
Edition description:	Unabridged

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From the Introduction:

Might you believe it if I were I to tell you that my beloved son Peter, who passed away at the age of nineteen, looked up at me from his crib when he was barely six weeks old and said, “I love you,” and that over the seven years since his passing at the age of nineteen, he has given Julie, his mother, and me unremitting strong evidence that his death, like all human death, is a lie. The task of this book, its sole and entire purpose, is to win your belief that this is so and give ease to the hearts of those reading this work who have lost a loved one, most especially a child. But I must go slowly, very slowly, for first I must win your belief in me. Along the way you’re of course allowed to smile. Starting now....

This is me, Bill Blatty, writing in the voice of my early comic novels and about to tell you of a gift so extraordinary, so wonderful, that has blessed me so late in my life, which is the gift of not merely believing but actually knowing there is life after death. But besides immortality—a subject for which I have to prepare you for the first three-quarters of this book—a secondary theme of these headlong jottings straight from the heart is that mysterious something long known to us as “Providence.”

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