Paul Wilkes wanted to be like social justice advocate Dorothy Day, and spend his life with the poor. He wanted to be like Thomas Merton, and spend his lifebehind monastery walls, in prayer. He failed on both accounts. He only becamehimself. One of Americas most respected writers on religious belief and spirituality, Paul Wilkes search for God begins in a poor, working class family in Cleveland and winds through lonely nights in a factory, working his way through college; a surprising confrontation during the Cuban Missile Crisis; a torrid romance on the Indian Ocean; acceptance into an Ivy League school; the perfect marriage, which would fail. A man who seemingly had everything, one day he took the scripture literally and gave up everything he owned to live with the poor. But then, in a dizzying turnabout, he became a person he gradually couldno longer recognize in the mirror. He spent his summers in the Hamptons, lived the life of the man about town, single, facile, popular, hollow. He knew Andy Warhol, Truman Capote and Kurt Vonnegut, but not himself. He sat at the feetof the Dalai Lama. He was an avowed hedonist. He lived as a hermit at a Trappist monastery. He found true love and ran from it. He was a true son of the Church and a sinner beyond anything he might have imagined. Paul Wilkess life isone of abysmal failure and ultimate triumph. Of a faith in God, battered and tried in the crucible of his life.
- ISBN: 978-0-470-42333-2
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 03/04/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés