Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul

Idioma: inglés

Editorial: New York : Random House, c2004., 2004

1400061849 / 9781400061846

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6th printing ; 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9781400061846, 9780812972344, 9780965551205, 1400061849, 0812972341, 0965551202 ; OCLC 53793490 ; LCCN 2003065541 ; LOC No BX4705.H468 A3 2004 ; Dewey 282/.092/242 ; wine-colored cloth in photographic dustjcket ; Counter A key comic writer of the past three decades has created his most heartfelt and hard-hitting book. Father Joe is Tony Hendra's inspiring true story of finding faith, friendship, and family through the decades-long influence of a surpassingly wise Benedictine monk named Father Joseph Warrillow. Like everything human, it started with sex. In 1955, fourteen-year-old Tony found himself entangled with a married Catholic woman. In Cold War England, where Catholicism was the subject of news stories and Graham Greene bestsellers, Tony was whisked off by the woman's husband to see a priest and be saved. Yet what he found was a far cry from the priests he'd known at Catholic school, where boys were beaten with belts or set upon by dogs. Instead, he met Father Joe, a gentle, stammering, ungainly Benedictine who never used the words "wrong" or "guilt," who believed that God was in everyone and that "the only sin was selfishness." During the next forty years, as his life and career drastically ebbed and flowed, Tony discovered that his visits to Father Joe remained the one constant in his life-the relationship that, in the most serious sense, saved it. From the fifties and his adolescent desire to join an abbey himself; to the sixties, when attending Cambridge and seeing the satire of Beyond the Fringe convinced him to change the world with laughter, not prayer; to the seventies and successful stints as an original editor of National Lampoon and a writer of Lemmings, the off-Broadway smash that introduced John Belushi and Chevy Chase; to professional disaster after co-creating the legendary English series Spitting Image; from drinking to drugs, from a failed first marriage to a successful second and the miracle of parenthood-the years only deepened Tony's need for the wisdom of his other and more real father, creating a bond that could not be broken, even by death. A startling departure for this acclaimed satirist, Father Joe is a sincere account of how Tony Hendra learned to love. It's the story of a whole generation looking for a way back from mockery and irony, looking for its own Father Joe, and a testament to one of the most charismatic mentors in modern literature. ; TONY HENDRA attended Cambridge University, where he performed frequently with friends and future Monty Pythons John Cleese and Graham Chapman. He is the author of Going Too Far, a classic history of modern American satire. He was editor in chief of Spy magazine, an original editor of the National Lampoon, and he played Ian Faith in the movie, This Is Spinal Tap. He has written frequently for New York, Harper's, GQ, Vanity Fair, Men's Journal, and Esquire, among other magazines. He is married to Carla Hendra; they have three young children, Lucy, Sebastian, and Nicholas. ; FINE/FINE.…

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Título
Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
Autor
Hendra, Tony ; design, Karen Lau, Robbin Schiff; photo, Luca Piotelli, Jeffrey Schifman
Editorial
New York : Random House, c2004.
Año de publicación
2004
Estado
Fine
Sobrecubierta
Fine
Tipo de libro
Book
Encuadernación
Hardcover
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
1400061849
ISBN 13
9781400061846

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