Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1987.
Description
Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over thirty-five years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of her Catholic Worker soup kitchens. He remained close to this inspiring and controversial woman until her death in 1980. His book, an intellectual and psychological portrait, confronts candidly the central puzzles of her life: the sophisticated Greenwich Village novelist and reporter who converted to Catholicism; the single mother who raised her child in a most unorthodox ”family”; her struggles with sexuality, loneliness, and pride; her devout religious conservatism coupled with radical politics. This intense portrait is based on many years of conversation and correspondence, as well as tape-recorded interviews.
Subjects
LCC
BX4705.D283C65 1987
Original publication date
1987-04
Physical description
xxi, 182 p.; 24 cm
ISBN
0201028298 / 9780201028294
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