On the road with the archangel

Frederick Buechner

first published 1997 G.K. Hall, 1998 199 pages

A novel inspired by events in the apocryphal Book of Tobit, from the second century B.C. This is the magical tale of two families brought together, as no mere coincidence, by the devilishly clever archangel Raphael. One is the family of Tobit, a virtuous man who can no longer support his wife and son because of Raguel, the quiet, devoted father of Sarah whose pact with the demon Asmodeus has left her life in tragic...

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On the Road with the Archangel edition · 2010 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780062005434
On the road with the archangel edition · 1998 · G.K. Hall · 199 pages
On the road with the archangel edition · 1997 · Harper San Francisco · 149 pages

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