 |
Saints and Sinners : The American Catholic Experience Through Stories, Memoirs, Essays andCommentary |
List Price: $25.95
Your Price: |
 |
|
|
|
| Product Info |
Reviews |
Description:
Saints and Sinners, edited by Greg Tobin, gathers some of the best published stories, memoirs, and essays about Catholicism and American politics, intellectual life, arts, and immigration experiences since World War II. This anthology considers "American Catholicism" to be "a state of mind that recognizes a hierarchy within the universe--whether accepting that hierarchy or rebelling against it. It is a state of mind that draws on common images and language to describe life. It is a place of belief in purpose and history (even more than religion)." And it is embodied here by authors including Dorothy Day, Helen Prejean, William F. Buckley, Jack Kerouac, Mary McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, and Alice McDermott, among others. It's hard to imagine a more powerful and insightful group of writers. Even if the organization of this volume, and the criteria by which the book was patched together, seem a bit rag-tag, it is at least a good chance for great reading pleasures such as Doris Kearns Goodwin on "The Brooklyn Dodgers and the Catholic Church" or Maria Augusta Trapp (think The Sound of Music) on the wonder of arriving at Ellis Island. --Michael Joseph Gross
|
|
|
