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...

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1. Verfasser:	Guterson, David 1956- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Knopf 2003
Ausgabe:	1. ed.
Schriftenreihe:	A Borzoi book
Schlagworte:	Maria Mary <Blessed Virgin, Saint> > Apparitions and miracles > Fiction Klerus Clergy > Fiction Loggers > Fiction Migrant agricultural laborers > Fiction Mushroom industry > Fiction Runaway teenagers > Fiction Teenage girls > Fiction Washington (State) > Fiction Fiktionale Darstellung Psychological fiction
Zusammenfassung:	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.
Beschreibung:	323 S.
ISBN:	0375412115