Toward That Which Is Beautiful - Wernicke, Marian O'Shea
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In June of 1964 in a small town in the Altiplano of Peru, Sister Mary Katherine-a young American nun afraid of her love for an Irish priest with whom she has been working-slips away from her convent with no money and no destination. Over the next eight days, she encounters both friendly and dangerous characters and travels an interior journey of memory and desire that leads her, finally, to a startling destination.

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Produktbeschreibung
In June of 1964 in a small town in the Altiplano of Peru, Sister Mary Katherine-a young American nun afraid of her love for an Irish priest with whom she has been working-slips away from her convent with no money and no destination. Over the next eight days, she encounters both friendly and dangerous characters and travels an interior journey of memory and desire that leads her, finally, to a startling destination.
Autorenporträt
Born and raised in an Irish Catholic family in St. Louis, Missouri, Marian O'Shea Wernicke is the eldest of seven children. She was a nun for eleven years and spent three years working in Lima, Peru, during that time. She is a former professor of English and creative writing at Pensacola State College and the author of a memoir about her father called Tom O'Shea: A Twentieth Century Man. She also coedited and contributed to an award-winning book of short fiction and memoir called Confessions: Fact or Fiction? Marian is married to Michael Wernicke, and they are the parents of three adult children. After many years in Pensacola, Florida, they now live in Austin, Texas.