| In Due Season: A Catholic Life Contributor(s): Wilkes, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0470423331 ISBN-13: 9780470423332 Publisher: Jossey-Bass OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: Paul Wilkes has been a writer/journalist, a TV producer, a monastic, a hedonist, a friend of the famous, a family man, and ultimately a true prodigal son. With "In Due Season," Wilkes, one of America's most respected writers on religious belief and spirituality, details his search for God--from his working class upbringing in Cleveland to giving up everything he owned and living with the poor to his hedonistic life among the rich and famous. Wilkes's inspiring life story is one of abysmal failure and ultimate triumph, of a faith in God, battered and tried in the crucible of his experience. Paul Wilkes (Wilmington, NC) is a writer and filmmaker who is best known for his focus on religion, especially Roman Catholicism and its monastic tradition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Religious |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2008050162 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 life behind monastery walls, in prayer. He failed on both accounts. He only became himself. One of America's 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 could no 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 feet of 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 Wilkes's life is one of abysmal failure and ultimate triumph. Of a faith in God, battered and tried in the crucible of his life. |