Body and Soul
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (986 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312063083 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 351 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Journalist Bernstein, author of three previous novels and The Nuns , a well-researched nonfiction study, does better with depictions of the solaces, rigors, self-flagellations and lesbian temptations of the cloister than with the humdrum workaday details of the yarn-spinning industry. Her brother Simon, having brought the family woolen mill to the verge of bankruptcy, has committed suicide and left his pregnant wife Lynn with two small sons. From Publishers Weekly Anna, enclosed for 13 years as Sister Gabriel in a Welsh convent, has already begun to lose her fervor when a crisis summons her briefly outside its walls. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Clubs alternates. Submitting rather passively to badgering by her whiny sister-in-law and rough-mannered lover, Anna doesn't always see
By the author of "Sadie", "Salka" and "Lili".. At the age of 31, after 13 years of abstinence and obedience in a nunnery, Anna is conscious of her desire to love a man and bear a child. Her brother's suicide forces her out into 1990s Britain, where she must come to terms with her sexual identity
Review truer emotion than the series on PBS A Customer Although I enjoyed the PBS production of "Body & Soul", I preferred the book over the TV seires. Anna became more alive in the book, revealing her emotional conflicts, her fear of changes and her doubts in the faith which were breezed through in the series. The book allowed you more reasons to empathize with Anna and Lynn. It was also less sensational , downplaying the sexual overtones highlighted in . I beg to differ with Kirkus! A Customer I read this book for the first time several years ago, and have read it several times since. I have lent it to friends who also loved it.I read when I was close to the age Anna is in the story and was going through some of what Anna does. Not that I was ever a nun, but I made a drastic career change in my early 30s, which is EXACTLY what Anna is doing. She still loves the Church, but she also learns t. A Customer said One of my all-time-favorite books. I loved this book! I've read it more than once and have loaned my copy to friends who have also loved it. In fact it is currently on it's way to Seattle. I loved all of the characters, even the most annoying Mother Superior and business manager, because they were so real. I would love to be able to buy copies for friends, but they are hard to come by these days. I'll just have to keep loaning my copy