In this memoir of her father's quest to become an Episcopal priest, Proctor also examines her own religious background, offering an extended personal essay on the idea of calling, dissecting it for a whole generation who came of age without the language of religion to guide them culturally or spiritually.
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In this memoir of her father's quest to become an Episcopal priest, Proctor also examines her own religious background, offering an extended personal essay on the idea of calling, dissecting it for a whole generation who came of age without the language of religion to guide them culturally or spiritually.
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New in new dust jacket. Publisher mark on page edge. Text pages clean and unmarked. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 274 p. Audience: General/trade.
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New in New jacket. Book FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. A child of the 1970s, with a Jewish mother and a Catholic father but no personal religious orientation until reaching thirty, describes her 'spiritual foray' through Judaism, her bat mitzvah, her studies of Roman Catholicism and why her father left the priesthood, the difficulties on becoming a priest, cultural shifts, and the meaning and purpose of one's life. Hardcover with dust jacket, contains notes, indexed, 274pp. A very nice copy. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
