Confessions of a Pagan Nun
A Novel
$29.47
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2002
Summary
A druid-turned-nun writes of faith, love, and loss in this “beautifully written and thought-provoking book” set at the dawn of Ireland’s Christian era.
Cloistered in a stone cell at the monastery of Saint Brigit, a sixth-century Irish nun secretly records the memories of her Pagan youth, interrupting her assigned task of transcribing Augustine and Patrick. She revisits her past, piece by piece—her fiercely independent mother, whose skill with healing plants and inner strength she inhe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781570629136 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1570629137 |
| Author: | Kate Horsley |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2002 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 129mm x 184mm |
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Critics Review
”- “As a slant of sunlight illuminates jewels long buried in a crypt, Kate Horsley’s novel brings words to an ancient silence and a living, vivid presence to people who lived in that time of great changes and estrangements we call the Dark Ages.” - Ursula K. LeGuin - “The poetry of Horsley’s language is stunning, her feel for the natural world exquisite. In Gwynneve she has created a woman of extraordinary depth and complexity. Though this is a work of fiction, I kept feeling that I had stumbled upon an ancient text hidden in some back room of the Vatican library or a stack of vellum found in some Irish crypt.” - Margot Adler, author of Drawing Down the Moon
Kate Horsley
Kate Horsley lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and teaches creative writing at Central New Mexico Community College. A poet as well as a novelist, Horsley has a PhD in American Studies and has published five novels. Her book A Killing in a New Town was the winner of the 1996 Western States Book Award for Fiction.
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