$16.95  Retail  $14.41 Online Price
 ISBN 13: 978-1-931816-02-1
 218 main text, 240 total pages
(Quality paperback)

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Unusual View of Depression Emerges from Book on Bill Wilson, the Alcoholics Anonymous Founder

After Bill Wilson's supreme achievement in founding Alcoholics Anonymous, why would he have suffered a serious depression that lasted more than a decade? Bill W., A Strange Salvation by Paul Hourihan, is a biographical novel attempting to throw light on this question, one that is rarely asked and has never been adequately answered.

Since the author sees AA primarily as a spiritual movement, the book involves the reader in many other themes of vital relevance to everyone―not to those in recovery alone. According to the book, Bill W.'s depression may have been his salvation, and saved him from a worse fate, such as a return to active alcoholism, which would have jeopardized the whole AA movement.

Bill W., A Strange Salvation will introduce new readers to Bill Wilson, "the greatest social architect"―in Aldous Huxley's words-of the past century, and one of the seminal voices of our age.

The author, Paul Hourihan, was born and educated in Boston where he earned a degree from Harvard, and a doctorate in English literature from Boston University. For 15 years he taught dozens of courses and gave innumerable lectures on the subject of great mystics and mysticism in Ontario, Canada. Hourihan, who was committed to the spiritual path for over 45 years, and a serious student of the world's mystical traditions, brings us unique revelations about the AA founder and Alcoholics Anonymous. This is the third of a dozen of his compelling books to be published by Vedantic Shores Press.

Bill W., A Strange Salvation is available from Vedantic Shores Press. It can be ordered securely online or by telephone toll-free at (866) 549-4757. It can also be ordered from your favorite bookstore. Our distributors to booksellers and libraries are: Baker & Taylor Books, New Leaf Distributing and Brodart. The retail price is $16.95.

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Bill W., A Strange Salvation: A Biographical Novel by Paul Hourihan. Original edition, 6 x 9, 240 pages, (Trade Paper). ISBN: 1-931816-02-6, LCCN: 2002115556, $16.95 U.S., Publication Date: June 2003.