Author | William P Young |
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Cover artist | Dave Aldrich |
Language | English |
Genre | Fiction |
Publisher | Windblown Media, FaithWords, Hodder & Stoughton |
Publication date | May 2007 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print, e-book, audiobook |
Pages | 256 pp |
ISBN | 0-9647292-3-7 |
OCLC | 166263178 |
Website | http://theshackbook.com/ |
The Shack is a novel by Canadian author William P. Young that was published in 2007.[1]
The novel was self-published but became a USA Today bestseller, having sold 1 million copies as of June 8, 2008.[2] It was the No. 1 paperback trade fiction seller on The New York Times Best Seller list from June 2008 to early 2010,[3] in a publishing partnership with Hachette Book Group USA's FaithWords imprint (Hodder & Stoughton in the UK). In 2009 it was awarded the "Diamond Award" for sales of over 10 million copies by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.[4]
The title of the book is a metaphor for "the house you build out of your own pain", as Young explained in a telephone interview.[5] He also told radio host talk show Drew Marshall that The Shack "is a metaphor for the places you get stuck, you get hurt, you get damaged ... where shame or hurt is centered."[6]