Our Lady of the Lost and Found A Novel of Mary, Faith, and Friendship

Name: Our Lady of the Lost and Found A Novel of Mary, Faith, and Friendship
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780142001325

ISBN-10: 0142001325

ISBN-13: 9780142001325

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Diane Schoemperlen, Diane Schoemperlen

List price: $22.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy used: $7.87

Buy new: $19.52

Marketplace

2 new & used from $3.09

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

On an otherwise typical Monday morning, a middle-aged writer enters her living room and finds a woman standing by her fig tree. The woman is wearing a blue trench coat, white sneakers, and a white shawl over her hair. She is holding a purse and a suitcase. She is the Virgin Mary-and after 2000 years of petition, adoration, and traveling, she's in need of a little R&R. Invited in for lunch, Mary decides to stay for one week, during which an unlikely friendship develops. As our narrator learns the remarkable history of one of the most influential and complex women of all time, she is moved to examine life's big questions and her own capacity for faith. Witty and gently ironic, this inventive…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/30/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.15" wide x 7.75" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Diane Schoemperlen is the author of the acclaimed novel "In the Language of Love", & of five short story collections including "Forms of Devotion" (Viking) & "The Man of My Dreams", which was nominated for Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Her work has appeared widely in anthologies & magazines, including Ms. & Story. She lives in Kingston, Ontario.