Absolute Truths: A Novel - Hardcover

Buch 6 von 6: Starbridge

Howatch, Susan

 
9780679412069: Absolute Truths: A Novel

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Bishop Charles Ashworth finds his faith and morality shaken by his grief over the death of his wife and embarks on a spiritual quest in search of the absolute truths that have shaped his life. 40,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. BOMC Alt. Tour.

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LFUL BLEND OF CHARACTER, PHILOSOPHY AND <br>NARRATIVE. . .Formidable personalities embroil themselves in ruthless power struggles that would make a corporate raider blush."<br>--The Washington Post Book World<br>It is 1965, and Charles Ashworth has attained the plum position of bishop of Starbridge, an honor that keeps him in a heady whirl of activity that would exhaust the most seasoned corporate executive. With the invaluable support of his minions and his attractive, unsinkable wife, Ashworth stands against the amorality and decadence of the age--"Anti-Sex Ashworth." He slays his opponents by being a tough, efficient, confident churchman, the torments of his past long since dead and buried.<br>And then the unexpected, the unthinkable, strikes.<br>Suddenly Ashworth finds himself staring into the chasm of all the lies hes been telling himself for years: about his marriage, his children, even his views on the Church. And as he suspects his old nemesis and dean, Neville Ay

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