Bøger af Richard Hawley

A isolated and sensitive midwestern boy grows up to believe he is a God-man in the eastern yogic tradition. His story unfolds in the middle and late decades of the last century, and along the way he attracts a devoted following who believe, and perhaps even know, he is the real thing.

When safely married partners are carried off course by romantic passion, they inevitably make a mess: guilt, shame, family wreckage, loss of social place. But not always. Perhaps, as in the case of big city journalist Sloan Fox and his improbable therapist Naomi Wise, committed lovers may ultimately reach that beckoning better place. With courage, humility and a measure of grace, they may pursue their longing to an intimation of the very source of longing. Sometimes love finds a way.

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Tony Jarvis may have been the most distinctive private school headmaster of the past half century, if not in the history of American schooling. He was for thirty years headmaster of Boston's Roxbury Latin School, the oldest school in continuous operation in the United States, founded in 1645 by the Puritan divine John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians. Roxbury Latin School today is a school of 300 boys in grades seven through twelve, and it is annually ranked among the best, and sometimes the best, scholastically performing school in the United States. But its scholastic performance, though impressive, is probably the least interesting thing about the school, which states its mission to be a place "where every boy is known and loved." In the year 2000 Peter Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at the Harvard Divinity School and Pusey Minister at Harvard Memorial Church wrote, "The Reverend F. Washington Jarvis and the Roxbury Latin School over which he has presided for a quarter of a century are each anachronisms and proud of so-being; and in the crowded field of private secondary education in North America both stand out because neither fits in." The "not fitting in" is a beautiful and inspiring story.

In precisely the same spirit as Abelard and Heloise and Romeo and Juliet, Paul and Juliana are a fresh young couple who embody the near-impossible notion of perfect love. In this elegant, timeless, and lyrical love story, they walk the fine line between forbidden romance and tragic disaster that is the stuff of ageless myths. Paul is a sloppy genius who would rather sing and play his guitar on a street corner than take the SATs and have his pick of Ivy League schools. Juliana is a lovely musical prodigy kept under the thumb of her old-fashioned, Viennese-born parents. Author Richard Hawley revives the classical romance in order to ask age-old questions: Is true adolescent love possible? What is perfect love? And what is perfection? Paul and Juliana leave the answers up to you, while promising to take you on a magical journey of both personal and epic proportions.