Lying Awake - Couverture rigide

Salzman, Mark

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0747557403 ISBN 13 : 9780747557401

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2002

Synopsis

In a Carmelite monastery on the outskirts of Los Angeles, life continues virtually unchanged for centuries. Sister John of the Cross has spent years there in the service of God. The only one to experience intense visions and the author of a best-selling book on religion, she is regarded by the other nuns as a spiritual master. But Sister John's visions are accompanied by powerful headaches and when a doctor reveals that they may be dangerous, she faces a devastating choice. If her spiritual gifts are symptoms of illness rather than grace, will a 'cure' mean the end of her visions and a soul once again dry and searching? This is the dilemma at the heart of Mark Salzman's new novel. Opening up the mysterious world of the cloister, he draws a brilliant portrait of women who are still drawn to the rigors of religious life, and especially of one woman's trial at the perilous intersection of faith and reason. A best-seller in America, LYING AWAKE is a novel of remarkable empathy and imagination.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark Salzman is the author of IRON AND SILK, an account of his two years in China, two novels, THE LAUGHING SUTRA and THE SOLOIST (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize) and LOST IN PLACE, a memoir. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0747557403
• ISBN 13: 9780747557401
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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