Edited sentence: Buechner has managed to reinvent projects of selfpurification and of faith as piquant matter for contemporary fiction, producing in a single decade a quintet of books each of which is individual in concerns and knowledge, and notable for literary finish.His later novels, including the Book of Bebb series and Godric, received hearty praise; in his 1980 review of Godric, Benjamin DeMott summed up a host of positive reviews, saying “All on his own, Mr.” In 1982, author Reynolds Price greeted Buechner’s The Sacred Journey as “a rich new vein for Buechner - a kind of detective autobiography” and “[t]he result is a short but fascinating and, in its own terms, beautifully successful experiment