DARLING: A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Richard Rodriguez
 
* About the book *
An award–winning writer delivers a major reckoning with religion, place, and sexuality in the aftermath of 9/11.

Richard Rodriguez’s stylish new memoir—the first book in a decade from the Pulitzer Prize finalist—moves from Jerusalem to Silicon Valley, from Moses to Liberace, from Lance Armstrong to Mother Teresa. Rodriguez is a homosexual who writes with love of the religions of the desert that exclude him. He is a passionate, unorthodox Christian who is always mindful of his relationship to Judaism and Islam because of a shared belief in the God who revealed himself within an ecology of emptiness. And at the center of this book is a consideration of women—their importance to Rodriguez’s spiritual formation and their centrality to the future of the desert religions.
 
Only a mind as elastic and refined as Rodriguez’s could bind these threads together into this wonderfully complex tapestry.
 
* About the author *
Richard Rodriguez is the author of Hunger of Memory, Brown,and Days of Obligation. He is a fellow of New America Media. He was a long-time contributor to PBS and continues to write for Harper's Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in San Francisco.
 
ISBN: 9780143125884
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Language: English
Condition: Like New