Father Joe - Tony Hendra
The Man Who Saved My Soul
KORTE INHOUD
A key comic writer of the past three decades has created his most heartfelt and hard-hitting book. Father Joe is Tony Hendra’s inspiring true story of finding faith, friendship, and family through the decades-long influence of a surpassingly wise Benedictine monk named Father Joseph Warrillow. Like everything human, it started with sex. In 1955, fourteen-year-old Tony found himself entangled with a married Catholic woman. In Cold War England, where Catholicism was the subject of news stories and Graham Greene bestsellers, Tony was whisked off by the woman’s husband to see a priest and be saved. Yet what he found was a far cry from the priests he’d known at Catholic school, where boys were beaten with belts or set upon by dogs. Instead, he met Father Joe, a gentle, stammering, ungainly Benedictine who never used the words “wrong” or “guilt,” who believed that God was in everyone and that “the only sin was selfishness.” During the next forty years, as his life and career drastically ebbed and flowed, Tony disco...
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2005Uitgever: Random House Trade Paperbacks304 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0812972341ISBN-13: 9780812972344Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2005, 304pp, paperback, goed exemplaar / good copy [Auteur: Hendra, Tony] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Random House USA Inc] [Jaar: 2005] [Titel: Father Joe / The Man Who Saved My Soul]
