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Our Lady of the Forest

Title: Our Lady of the Forest / David Guterson.
Author: Guterson, David.
Publication: New York : A.A. Knopf, 2003.

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Description

323 pages; 25 cm

Summary

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.

Series Statement

September 2003

Uniform Title

September 2003.

Subject

Genre/Form

Psychological fiction.
Fiction
Psychological fiction

ISBN

0375412115
9780375412110
0747560188
9780747560180
0375726578
9780375726576

LCCN

2002043322

OCLC

ocm51223567
51223567
SCSB-1309727

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library