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Bezig met laden... The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoirdoor Honor Moore
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Honor Moore's story is a very interesting one. And what a family! However, she is a bit too caught up in being a writer and often ends up telling the story with so many high-minded asides, it becomes very jerky. Too often, I was forced to pay attention to her style, so found the book a difficult read--a slog through thickets of language. I yearned to learn more about her family and a bit less about her affairs. ( ) When I saw that this won The Big Lambda I picked it up immediately. I put it back down almost as quickly. Because it was really, really boring. [Author:Nancy Pearl] has this formula where the number of pages you should give a book before you quit it is 100 - (your age). Working backwards from this formula, if we were calculating my age only from my experience with [b:The Bishop's Daughter|47956|Daughter of the Blood (The Black Jewels, #1)|Anne Bishop|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170349026s/47956.jpg|353853], I am 50 years old. Honor and I are the same age, and I found myself tracking with her on all the familial, churchly, priestly observations that she made in the course of her book. As a priest and a gay man, I appreciated walking along with both her and her father as they wrestled with what life and God had given them. I found this book difficult to put down. The bishop is Paul Moore, and for more then 20 years he was the bishop of New York. He was born to a privileged family, married a woman born to similar circumstances, and subsequently had 9 children. The author is the oldest. The author does a good job describing what it's like to be the daughter of someone committed to a congregation, particularly someone devoted to the social causes of the time. The big revelation of the book is her father's homosexuality, and how this affected everyone in the family. An honest telling. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Paul Moore's vocation as an Episcopal priest took him-with his wife Jenny and a family that grew to nine children-from robber-baron wealth to work among the urban poor of postwar America, prominence as an activist bishop in Washington during the Johnson years, leadership in the civil rights and peace movements, and two decades as the bishop of New York. The Bishop's Daughter is a daughter's story of that complex, visionary man: a chronicle of her turbulent relationship with a father who struggled privately with his sexuality while she openly explored hers, and a searching account of the consequences of sexual secrets. With a depth of questioning that recalls James Carroll's An American Requiem, this memoir engages the listener in the great issues of American life: war, race, family, sexuality, and faith. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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