簡介
Paul Wilkes has been a writer/journalist, a TV producer, a monastic, a hedonist, a friend of the famous, a family man, and ultimately a true prodigal son. With In Due Season, Wilkes, one of America's most respected writers on religious belief and spirituality, details his search for God--from his working class upbringing in Cleveland to giving up everything he owned and living with the poor to his hedonistic life among the rich and famous. Wilkes's inspiring life story is one of abysmal failure and ultimate triumph, of a faith in God, battered and tried in the crucible of his experience.
目錄
Author’s Note ix
Introduction xi
Formation
1. The Seventh Child 3
2. A Vision 15
3. High School: The Man in the Ten-Way Suit 19
4. Coming Home, Leaving Home 25
5. College: Red Arrow Park 35
6. At Sea 44
7. One Hot Day and Night 53
Making It
8. A Young Reporter 59
9. The Big Time, More or Less 67
10. Home, Again 77
11. On the Streets 81
Unmaking It
12. CHIPS Days 93
13. Present 100
14. The Pilgrimage 104
15. Not Present 109
16. The Sofa 118
17. 80 Winthrop 122
18. The Scent of a Woman 131
As Good as It Gets?
19. On the Playing Fields of the Hamptons 145
20. The Perfect Girl for You 155
21. Tracy 165
Getting Bearings
22. The Hermit 177
23. Almost 183
24. A Place to Park 193
25. Father Greer 202
Life, Lived
26. The Writing Life 217
27. A Monk, at Last 233
28. Why? Why Not? 241
Returning
29. Kolinovce 253
30. Worthy or Not 263
31. Return to St. Peter’s 272
32. A Light in the Window 280
Acknowledgments 285
The Author 287
