{"id":10983,"date":"2012-02-23T14:37:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T19:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=10983"},"modified":"2012-02-23T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T20:37:06","slug":"bestselling-novelist-frank-peretti%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cillusion%e2%80%9d-is-love-letter-to-barbara-his-wife-for-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2012\/02\/bestselling-novelist-frank-peretti%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cillusion%e2%80%9d-is-love-letter-to-barbara-his-wife-for-40-years","title":{"rendered":"Bestselling novelist Frank Peretti\u2019s \u201cIllusion\u201d is a love letter to Barbara, his wife for 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there\u2019s a message in bestselling author Frank Peretti\u2019s new book Illusion,<\/em> it\u2019s a thank-you card, he says, or maybe a romantic note to his wife \u2013 as well as a celebration of marriage.<\/p>\n

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Frank Peretti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a tribute,\u201d he says from his home in rural Idaho, \u201cto my own relationship with my wife, Barbara. I\u2019m 61 now and I\u2019m looking back at 40 years of marriage. This book is an exploration of just what kind of people make that sort of commitment and enjoy the sort of devotion to stick together through thick and thin for four decades.\u201d<\/p>\n

With more than 15 million books in print, Peretti has been nothing short of a publishing phenomenon since the 1980s, His international bestsellers This Present Darkness<\/em> and Piercing the Darkness<\/em> were surprise hits by a tiny publishing company. But they were championed by evangelical icons of the day such as songwriter Michael W. Smith, whose \u201cAshton\u201d on his platinum album “i2(Eye)” in 1988 alerted teens to the book,\u00a0and Amy Grant, who\u00a0during concerts would just mention \u201ca really great book I just read,\u201d prompting a rash of sales.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Peretti could be called the father of modern Christian fiction with his 21 titles, including the The Oath<\/em> and The Visitation —<\/em> as well as a number of books and videos\u00a0for kids.<\/em> Unlike his early bestsellers,\u00a0Illusion<\/em> is not about spiritual warfare. In\u00a0a departure from the good vs. evil plots for which he is famous, Peretti tells the story of a married, middle-aged couple of show-biz, Vaudeville-type illusionists.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Illusions<\/em>‘s\u00a0512 pages and 150,000 or so\u00a0words, there\u2019s no\u00a0— continued on Page 2<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If there\u2019s a message in bestselling author Frank Peretti\u2019s new book Illusion, it\u2019s a thank-you card, he says, or maybe a romantic note to his wife \u2013 as well as a celebration of marriage. \u201cIt\u2019s a tribute,\u201d he says from his home in rural Idaho, \u201cto my own relationship with my wife, Barbara. 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