Our Lady of the Lost and Found
by Diane Schoemperlen
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE
- ISBN 10
- 0002255103
- ISBN 13
- 9780002255103
- Seller
-
Aurora, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: HarperCollins, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. 8vo. Light shelfwear. No writing/markings. Not price clipped. Dust jacket is protected in new archival mylar. 432 pages. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario.
Synopsis
One Monday morning in April, a middle-aged writer walks into her living room to water the plants and finds a woman standing beside her potted fig tree. Dressed in a navy blue trench coat and white Nikes, the woman introduces herself as "Mary. Mother of God.... You know. Mary." Instead of a golden robe or a crown, she arrives bearing a practical wheeled suitcase. Weary after two thousand years of adoration and petition, Mary is looking for a little R & R. She's asked in for lunch, and decides to stay a week. As the story of their visit unfolds, so does the story of Mary-one of the most complex and powerful female figures of our time-and her changing image in culture, art, history, as well as the thousands of recorded sightings that have placed her everywhere from a privet hedge to the dented bumper of a Camaro. As this Everywoman and Mary become friends, their conversations, both profound and intimate, touch upon Mary's significance and enduring relevance. Told with humor and grace, Our Lady of the Lost and Found is an absorbing tour through Mary's history and a thoughtful meditation on spirituality, our need for faith, and our desire to believe in something larger than ourselves.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Irolita Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8240
- Title
- Our Lady of the Lost and Found
- Author
- Diane Schoemperlen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - NEAR FINE
- Jacket Condition
- NEAR FINE
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0002255103
- ISBN 13
- 9780002255103
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 432
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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