Released from the cage of his own passivity, Harold feels transformed, though he keeps his tie on. Alfred Prufrock not just eating that peach, but throwing the pit out the window, rolling up his trousers and whistling to those hot mermaids. “For all of us perfectly responsible, stoop-shouldered suburbanites wearing a path in the living-room carpet, Harold’s ridiculous journey is a cause for celebration. It will stick with you, this story of faith, fidelity and redemption.”- Minneapolis Star Tribune Harold’s journey, which parallels Christian’s nicely but not overly neatly, takes him to the edge of death and back again. Like Christian in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, Harold becomes Everyman in the eyes of those who encounter him. “You have to love Harold Fry, a man who set out one morning to mail a letter and then just kept going. “ gorgeously poignant novel of hope and transformation.”- O: The Oprah Magazine Praise for The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
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