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Levinson, Tom. All That's Holy: a Young Guy, an Old Car, and the Search for God in America.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

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| September 01, 2003 | Sawyers, June | COPYRIGHT 2003 American Library Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Sept. 2003, 320p. Jossey-Bass, $23.95 (0-7879-6166-3). 200.

Usually road trips and pilgrimages don't mix, but in Levinson's entertaining cross-country tale, they do. He set out to talk to people of as many faiths as possible, throughout America. He meant to speak less than to listen, and to learn thereby more about himself. The fourth-generation Jewish New Yorker also says his journey was partly a process of transformation, partly a means of escape. Purposeful, if lacking an itinerary, he met Trappist monks near Dubuque, Iowa; ...

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