{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"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. \"--"}, "title": "Finding Peter", "subject_places": ["United States"], "subjects": ["Grief", "Biography", "Screenwriters", "Future life", "Bereavement", "Motion picture authorship", "RELIGION / Spirituality", "SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement", "BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Reincarnation", "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts", "nyt:celebrities=2015-05-10", "New York Times bestseller", "Spiritual biography"], "subject_people": ["William Peter Blatty"], "key": "/works/OL19995259W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL81831A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [11023006], "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-07-18T19:05:03.532388"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-03-17T11:23:18.317233"}}