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| Resurrecting Grace: Remembering Catholic Childhoods | 
| Creators: Louise Desalvo, Michael Patrick Macdonald, Frank Mccourt, Marilyn Sewell
Publisher: Beacon Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1029999
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 314
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0807012408
Dewey Decimal Number: 282.092273
UPC: 046442012409
EAN: 9780807012406
ASIN: 0807012408
Publication Date: August 1, 2001
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Resurrecting Grace is a wildly entertaining collection of memoir about the often painful and humorous experience of growing up in the one true faith. This small confessional of personal pieces from women and men about the Church, the saints, the nuns, hidden desires, and overt transgressions?and of course the guilt, the guilt, the guilt?is one for proud Catholics, former and recovering Catholics, and Catholics by association. Editor Marilyn Sewell, a Unitarian minister who was raised in the Catholic faith, approaches her subject with a kind of reverent humor. The book is arranged thematically, around topics like "The Sins of the Flesh," "Sister, May I?," and "Suffering and Sacrifice," and includes pieces by Rosemary Bray, Roberto Rodriguez, Mary Gordon, Esmeralda Santiago, Tobias Wolff, and many others.
Rich in the images and experiences that can only be the result of a Catholic upbringing, these stories prove the promise of a community founded on faith and sustained with hope.
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 wonderful book! December 5, 2003
This is a collection of subtle stories of childhood in which Catholicism is an influence but not always necessarily the dominant one. Sewell has struck a nice balance between established, famous authors and a handful of emerging ones--whose work is among the best in the book. Recommended whether you remember your Catholic childhood fondly or not.
Not just for Catholics anymore January 26, 2002
Anyone who has ever sinned or wondered about the nature of religious feeling should read this book. It is funny and heartbreaking by turns, and amid all these memories we see how children interpret ideas of spirituality passed down to them. They may not always understand, but their experiences are illuminating.
author/editor review August 24, 2001
"A collection for Catholics, former Catholics, and Catholics by association, "Resurrecting Grace" is redolent with the images, sounds, smells, and deep heart experiences that are so much a part of a Catholic upbringing . . . . It is an encounter with this complex community of faith that sustains and exasperates those who have been touched by it." (from the jacket cover) These personal recollections are from some of our finest contemporary writers: Frank McCourt, Tobias Wolff, Anna Quindlen, Michael Patrick Macdonald, Brian Doyle, Sandra Cisneros, Rosemary Bray, and Patricia Hampl, among others. The collection contains pieces from writers of various races and ethnicities, and the reader is led to see the One True Church in all its colors and forms, all of its follies, and all of its profundities. The volume is rich with humor, but takes no cheap shots. These writers have reflected deeply upon their early religious experience: they have written to learn what they did not know, and they have grown deeper roots in the process.
 Overall disappointment July 31, 2001
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
Considering the calibre of the writers from whom Marilyn Sewell requested memories, the low quality of both the writing and "storytelling" in this book is abysmal. Most of the memories had little substance, and the tone of many essays was so poor that I had the impression the authors had scribbled them on cocktail napkins in a rush.With few exceptions (Thomas Merton's section, for example), the recollections were boring and lacked any sort of bite. Neither humorous, nostalgic, nor thought-provoking, the tales would leave one constantly turning the pages, hoping some substance would follow. The quest for the Holy Grail would be less futile than that for any wit or charm in this book. The promise of the title undoubtedly would prompt people to order this book as a gift for a Catholic friend or a hope of memories for oneself. I strongly suggest that potential readers at least take a glimpse at a copy on a library shelf first.
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