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

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

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

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

by William Peter Blatty

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A New York Times Bestseller!

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781621573906
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date: 03/30/2015
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 963,123
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

About The Author
William Peter Blatty is the bestselling author of The Exorcist, which he turned into an Academy Award–winning screenplay. The son of immigrant parents, he was a comic novelist before embarking on a four decade career as a Hollywood writer, penning the screenplays for A Shot in the Dark, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, the Julie Andrews romantic comedy Darling Lili, and The Ninth Configuration (which he also directed), among many other films. A graduate of Georgetown University, he lives with his wife, Julie, in Bethesda, Maryland.

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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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