As It Were: Life at a Slight Angle to the Universe - Softcover

Roccasalvo, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 145356330X ISBN 13: 9781453563304

Verlag: Xlibris US, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

We say that the style is the man. Style as the soul of wit and wisdom is the person. The aphorism points to this memoir?s author, Joseph Roccasalvo: refined, astute and ironic. Readers will envision him moving at a slight angle to family and friends, exuding his intelligence to wide benefit. He is at once scholar and believer. Although the events of his life may enlarge on his attainments, we value him best for his faith and hope. Like his namesake, Joseph, he?s accounted a blessing.

He avoids being confessional by his cool, robust, somewhat distant stance. If he?s a practitioner of perfect prose, he?s also practitioner of the perfect pose: linguist, novelist and orientalist; priest and playwright. He alarms us with the library he carries in his brain. He?s the recorder of the secrets and longings, not only of his friends, but also of himself. The portraits in AS IT WERE issue a summons: ?You, dear reader, take note. We are questioning you. Do you claim a soul among the soulless who wander our culture lost? You may yet be found.? This is the triumph of Roccasalvo?s memoir told with singular purpose. It?s a story of divine providence; of grace doled out during infancy which brings all things mysteriously to completion.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joseph Roccasalvo completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in Classics, Philosophy, English Literature and Theology from Bellarmine College, Fordham University, and Woodstock College. In addition to these educational merits, he then earned his Harvard Ph.D. in Comparative Religion with a specialty in Buddhism. He studied Asian languages and religion and was trained as a comparative research scholar in global cultures, East and West. Joseph has received accolades for his publications and mentoring. In 2022, the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) named him the Top Fictional Writer of the Year. He is the recipient of honors from Bristol Who's Who and is a member of the Catholic Writers Guild. He remains an active standing member of Harvard's Center for the Study of World Religions.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 145356330X
• ISBN 13: 9781453563304
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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