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Pickett's Dream - Carlisle, Christopher
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When smart and beautiful Athena Van Fleet attends her sister's wedding, she encounters John Pickett, the officiating priest whom she knew as a student in college. Now married to tennis star, Ted Talbot, who is retired with an injured knee, she moves to Newport when her husband is named President of the Tennis Hall of Fame. Smitten by Pickett, Athena uses her sway as the daughter of a bishop to secure the young priest an improbable call as rector of the wealthy Newport parish.As Ted begins to sense Athena's enchantment, he jealously makes Pickett his prey. Then unaccountably, the penniless…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
When smart and beautiful Athena Van Fleet attends her sister's wedding, she encounters John Pickett, the officiating priest whom she knew as a student in college. Now married to tennis star, Ted Talbot, who is retired with an injured knee, she moves to Newport when her husband is named President of the Tennis Hall of Fame. Smitten by Pickett, Athena uses her sway as the daughter of a bishop to secure the young priest an improbable call as rector of the wealthy Newport parish.As Ted begins to sense Athena's enchantment, he jealously makes Pickett his prey. Then unaccountably, the penniless priest becomes proprietor of Rosecliff mansion-igniting rumors up and down the Eastern Seaboard that the priest is a tycoon or a drug lord. Narrator Brooke Adams, feeling like a "bystander implicated at the scene of the crime," watches as Pickett's incredible scheme is unraveled to an unintended end.From the sad abandoned mill towns of industrial New England to the hunt fields and ballrooms of Newport, from an aged acolyte in rural Massachusetts to pretentious Park Avenue bishops, and from the shining spectacle of the Champs-Élysées to the elusive Bishop's House in Providence, Pickett's Dream is borne from the Yuppie Go-Go 80's to the mean streets of our time, and the innocence of a heretical dreamer to the world we find ourselves in.
Autorenporträt
Christopher Carlisle is an Episcopal priest who served briefly in a parish before becoming the Episcopal Chaplain at the University of Massachusetts, where he created an innovative sanctuary of learning, worship and the arts. Open to all, students, faculty, and local residents reimagined religious ""faith"" across a broad spectrum of disciplines-from biology and quantum physics, to poetry and music, to working with the homeless on the streets of New York. Convicted that for many, the institutional church has failed the adventure of Jesus, Carlisle asserts that only by breaking beyond its buildings can we embark on Christ's life-changing journey. Carlisle earned his undergraduate degree from Columbia University, and graduate theological degrees from Harvard and Yale. Having devoted much of his life to storytelling--recently by way of the ""Street Stories"" media project with Visionaries, Inc. and aired on public television stations across the country--For Theirs is the Kingdom is inspired by two outdoor communities he cofounded. Carlisle is married, has four children, and lives in western Massachusetts.