<B>"For those who have lost a loved one to that liar and fraud named Death."</B><p>So reads the dedication of William Peter Blatty's <I>Finding Peter</I>, a deeply moving memoir that tests the bounds of grief, love, and the soul. Blatty, the bestselling author and Oscar Award–winning screenwriter of <I>The Exorcist</I>, lived a charmed life among the elite stars of Hollywood.<p>His son Peter, born over a decade after <I>The Exorcist</I>, 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.<p>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.<p>A true and unabashedly personal story, <I>Finding Peter</I> will shake the most cynical of readers—and it will remind those in grief that our loved ones do truly live on.<BR>
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