Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury

Honor Moore

ISBN 10: 0393080056 / ISBN 13: 9780393080056

Verlag: Blue Guides Limited Of London Mär 2020, 2020

Neuware - With the sweep of an epic novel, Our Revolution follows Jenny Moore, a charismatic and brilliant woman whose life changed as she became engaged in the great twentieth-century movements for peace and social justice. Born into Boston society in 1923 and the first woman in her family to go to college, she set aside writing ambitions to marry Paul Moore, a decorated war hero who became Bishop Paul Moore. Together they had nine children-'I wanted a baseball team,' Jenny said, 'or a small orchestra.'. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780393080056

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Our RevolutionRejecting a conventional path, the Moores moved to an inner-city parish in Jersey City and began their family while collaborating on a socially radical, multiracial ministry. In 1968, Jenny published her first book. "Everything was just starting," she protested meaning an independent life inspired in part by the new feminist movement when she was diagnosed with cancer at fifty.Our Revolution

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Honor Moore is the author of two previous memoirs in A Daughter's Family Trilogy--The Bishop's Daughter, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The White Blackbird, a New York Times Notable Book--as well as a play and three collections of poems. She lives in New York City.

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Titel: Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at ...
Verlag: Blue Guides Limited Of London Mär 2020
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: Buch
Zustand: Neu