What to Wear to See the Pope: Hilarious and Heartfelt Short Stories About a Catholic Family and Fragile Faith - Softcover

Lehner, Christine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156031485 ISBN 13: 9780156031486

Verlag: Mariner Books, 2005

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This moving and funny portrait of quandaries of faith and fragile family connections brings to life a high-strung matriarch's many obsessions, from proper pope-viewing attire to Saint Theresa's eyebrows.

A conflicted Catholic and amateur linguist, Ursula Codwell has a passion for saints and semantics that is surpassed only by the affection she feels for her husband, her children, and her precious bulldog. Raised in what she refers to as the "fraught and schizoid tradition of Belgian Catholicism," Ursula suffers from neuroses that threaten to overwhelm her children and her ostensibly tolerant Unitarian husband. Her indecisiveness and attention to detail lead her to become fixated on matters such as reclaiming her surgically removed tissue from the lab or deciding what to wear to see the pope when he visits her hometown in New York's Hudson Valley.

In ten interconnected stories-all narrated by Ursula- What to Wear to See the Pope tells the highly entertaining story of a strained but loving family.

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CHRISTINE LEHNER’s last book, What to Wear to See the Pope, a collection of stories, was published by Harcourt in 2005. She lives with two dogs and thousands of bees.

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From proper pope-viewing attire to the definition of the word "apocryphal," the obsessions of Ursula Codwell--conflicted Catholic and amateur linguist--come to life in this moving and funny look at the quandaries of faith and fragile family connections.

Ursula Codwell's passion for saints and semantics is surpassed only by the affection she feels for her husband, her children, and her precious bulldog, Saint Joan. But her indecisiveness and attention to detail lead her to become fixated on matters such as what to wear to see the Pope when he comes to her hometown in New York's Hudson Valley or reclaiming her surgically removed teratomas from the pathology lab, threatening to overwhelm her children, her ostensibly tolerant Unitarian husband, and even Ursula herself.

In ten interconnected stories-all narrated by Ursula-What to Wear to See the Pope tells the highly entertaining story of a strained but loving family and explores the type of day-to-day obsessions that drive us all.

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From proper pope-viewing attire to the definition of the word "apocryphal," the obsessions of Ursula Codwell--conflicted Catholic and amateur linguist--come to life in this moving and funny look at the quandaries of faith and fragile family connections.
Ursula Codwell's passion for saints and semantics is surpassed only by the affection she feels for her husband, her children, and her precious bulldog, Saint Joan. But her indecisiveness and attention to detail lead her to become fixated on matters such as what to wear to see the Pope when he comes to her hometown in New York's Hudson Valley or reclaiming her surgically removed teratomas from the pathology lab, threatening to overwhelm her children, her ostensibly tolerant Unitarian husband, and even Ursula herself.
In ten interconnected stories-all narrated by Ursula-What to Wear to See the Pope tells the highly entertaining story of a strained but loving family and explores the type of day-to-day obsessions that drive us all.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0156031485
• ISBN 13: 9780156031486
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 222
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