Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion
Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion
Author: Robert Coles
Desc: 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.