Finding Peter

By William Peter Blatty

Subjects: Grief, Biography, New York Times bestseller, SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement, Future life, Bereavement, Screenwriters, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Reincarnation, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Spiritual biography, nyt:celebrities=2015-05-10, RELIGION / Spirituality, Motion picture authorship

Description: "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 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 shake the most cynical of readers-and it will remind those in grief that our loved ones do truly live on. "--