Our Lady of the Forest
(Large Print)
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Published
New York : Random House Large Print, 2003.
Format
Large Print
Edition
Large print edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Large Print Fiction
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Clergy -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Loggers -- Fiction.
Mary, -- Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Apparitions and miracles -- Fiction.
Migrant agricultural laborers -- Fiction.
Mushroom industry -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Runaway teenagers -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Washington (State) -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Loggers -- Fiction.
Mary, -- Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Apparitions and miracles -- Fiction.
Migrant agricultural laborers -- Fiction.
Mushroom industry -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Runaway teenagers -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Washington (State) -- Fiction.
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Published
New York : Random House Large Print, 2003.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
528 pages
Street Date
0309
Language
English
Notes
Description
This novel is about a teenage girl, Ann Holmes, who claims to see the Virgin Mary. A sixteen-year-old runaway, Ann is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent. But on a November afternoon, in the foggy woods of North Fork, Washington, the Virgin comes to her, clear as day. Father Collins -- a young priest new to North Fork -- finds Ann disturbingly alluring. But it is up to him to evaluate -- impartially -- the veracity of Ann's sightings: Are they delusions, or a true calling to God? As word spreads and thousands, including the press, converge upon the town, Carolyn Greer, a smart-talking fellow mushroomer, becomes Ann's disciple of sorts, as well as her impromptu publicity manager. And Tom Cross, an embittered logger who has been out of work since his son was paralyzed in a terrible accident, finds in Ann's visions a last chance for redemption for both himself and his son. As Father Collins searches his own soul and Ann's, as Carolyn struggles with her less than admirable intentions, as Tom alternates between despair and hope, Our Lady of the Forest tells a suspenseful, often wryly humorous, and deeply involving story of faith at a contemporary crossroads.