Michelle Blake
Auteur van The Tentmaker
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- Gangbare naam
- Blake, Michelle
- Officiƫle naam
- Connor, Lily
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Symons, Michelle Blake
- Geboortedatum
- 20th Century
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Opleiding
- Harvard University (MA|Theological Studies)
- Beroepen
- academic (Tufts University)
- Korte biografie
Lily Connor is a "tentmaker" (an ordained priest who works at a trade outside the church), and is the creation of Michelle Blake (c1955- ), a poet and writer, who also publishes under the name Michelle Blake Symons. She earned a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard University and at one time thought about becoming an Episcopalian priest herself. She teaches fiction writing in the English Department at Tufts University and lives near Boston with her author husband and two children.
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- 3
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- 219
- Populariteit
- #102,099
- Waardering
- 3.3
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- 2
- ISBNs
- 8
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The story reads like a biography of Anna, a missing older Catholic woman of Polish descent who survived the horrors of the Holocaust as a child. The search for her reveals insights into the Roman Catholic faith including conservative, modern and occult practices.
I received a lot more spiritual enlightenment from this book than I would have expected from a work of fiction. The message that people can make mistakes in their life but still be redeemed is strongly enforced.
I would definitely recommend this book to readers of christian fiction and those with an interest in the Catholic, Episcopalian and Jewish faiths and antisemitic cults.… (meer)