The 2nd shipment came in correct, but the CD's don't work. The first shipment came in with the wrong CD's, literally a different author and different title. But no, it absolutely must be on this archaic format of CD Rom. Just give it to me on a flash drive, or make it downloadable. I have to get a subscription to an audio reseller if I want that. Would love to just buy it in direct digital format, but that's not available. I heard it on the Christian Radio, and promptly went to amazon to buy it. But here he reveals a personal story few have heard, taking us from his mostly happy childhood-and riotous triumphs at Yale-to the nightmare of drifting toward a dark abyss of meaninglessness from which he barely escapes.Īlong the way he introduces us to an unforgettable troupe of picaresque characters who join this quintessentially first-generation American boy in what is both bildungsroman and odyssey-and which underscores just how funny, serious, happy, sad, and ultimately meaningful life can be. Renowned for his biographies of William Wilberforce, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther, Metaxas is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, the witty host of the acclaimed Socrates in the City conversation series, and a nationally syndicated radio personality. What Happens When One of America's Most Admired Biographers Writes His Own Biography?įor Eric Metaxas, the answer is Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life -a poetic and sometimes hilarious memoir of his early years, in which the Queens-born son of Greek and German immigrants struggles to make sense of a world in which he never quite seems to fit.

Fish out of water by eric metaxas