Elsie Holcombe

Broschiertes Buch

It Happened in a Parish: Volume 1

Beschreibung

It Happened in a Parish relates the stories of two very differentpriests and the often funny and heart-rending events that occur in asmall South Carolina parish during a new priest's arrival. Set in the late 1960s, amid the turbulent background of racial strifeand prejudice, the failing Viet Nam War, radical church and socialchanges, which includes a shocking interracial love affair (for the times), the story alternates between Father Whitman's strange absence, a beautiful woman's quest for absolution; and the upsetting happeningsin St. Anthony's Parish throughout the new priest's unconventionaltakeover. When the very pious, reserved Father Carl Whitman turns up missingalong with an old unexplained letter from his church in South Carolina, he is replaced by Father Remigius Meyer, a former Franciscan Army chaplain with an uncanny resemblance to Friar Tuck. Remigius'unorthodoxy, sometime leftover army barracks language, together withhis big brown praying dog are all enough to disturb the old-time parishionersof St. Anthony's Church and things are never the sam

Autor

Elsie Holcombe lives in Anderson, SC. Although she was born in Yonkers, NY, she is a Southerner by choice. Her poetry, essays and short stories have been recognized by many publications, including Foothills Writers, Catfish Stew, Musings, The Quill, Writer's Digest, Catholic Diocese of SC, Ivy Leaves, Arkansas Pen Women, Petigru Review and Anderson County Heritage, among others. Her poem What If the World Was Upside Down won the 2009 Poetry Society of SC Peter Pan Award for best children's category and is now published as a beautiful children's picture book. She once owned The Pen Shop, a bookstore where she and her co-owner offered authors an outlet for browsing and book signings.She is a widow and matriarch of a loud, boisterous and funny family, numbering 50-plus, who call her house a "revolving door." She is a retired member of Foothill Writers and Sunday Critiques. Her main interests now are writing, traveling, family gatherings, a Weekly Bible Class and listening to those who come through the "door." Her favorite Bible passage is Micah 6: 8"You have been told, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires of you: Only to do the right and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God."NAB

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Neil Investments Inc
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 9mm x 139mm
• ISBN-13: 9781543997088
• ISBN-10: 1543997082
• Artikelnr.: 58456350