Paul Moore's vocation as an Episcopal priest took him-with his wife Jenny and a family that grew to nine children-from robber-baron wealth to work among the urban poor of postwar America, prominence as an activist bishop in Washington during the Johnson years, leadership in the civil rights and peace movements, and two decades as the bishop of New York. The Bishop's Daughter is a daughter's story of that complex, visionary man: a chronicle of her turbulent relationship with a father who struggled privately with his ...
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Paul Moore's vocation as an Episcopal priest took him-with his wife Jenny and a family that grew to nine children-from robber-baron wealth to work among the urban poor of postwar America, prominence as an activist bishop in Washington during the Johnson years, leadership in the civil rights and peace movements, and two decades as the bishop of New York. The Bishop's Daughter is a daughter's story of that complex, visionary man: a chronicle of her turbulent relationship with a father who struggled privately with his sexuality while she openly explored hers, and a searching account of the consequences of sexual secrets. With a depth of questioning that recalls James Carroll's An American Requiem, this memoir engages the reader in the great issues of American life: war, race, family, sexuality, and faith.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed "For Annand Michael" by the author on the title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket has mild rubbing and soiling. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 368 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. Book has shelfwear to the bottoms of the boards and some soiling to the edges of the pageblock. A memoir of the author's relationship with her father, Bishop Paul Moore, an Editor's Choice by The New York Times, a Favorite Book of 2008 by the Los Angeles Times, and chosen by the National Book Critics Circle as part of their "Good Reads" recommended reading list as well as a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography and Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature by the author of 'Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury' and 'The White Blackbird'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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This book is presented as a memoir, but that's not really accurate. It's the history of a kind of Brahmin American family. As such, it reaks of a kind of hubris-ridden self-pity that only folks with more money than they need and too much time on their hands have. Ultimately, after a lot of windbaggery about Wasp life it turns out that the author is a Lesbian whose Dad has always lived the life of a closeted gay. I know the critics like it, but I was bored!