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Holy Ghost Girl de Donna M. Johnson

Holy Ghost Girl

Autor Donna M. Johnson Carrington MacDuffie
en Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 30 sep 2011

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Books for a Better Life (2011)
A compassionate, humorous story of faith, betrayal, and coming of age on the sawdust trail. Only three when her mother became tent revivalist David Terrell's organist, Donna was soon part of the hugely popular evangelist's inner circle. At seventeen, she left the ministry for good. Holy Ghost Girl brings to life miracles, exorcisms, and face-offs with the Ku Klux Klan--and that's just what went on under the tent. As Terrell's fame grew in the 1960s and '70s, the caravan of broken-down cars that made up his ministry evolved into fleets of Mercedes. The glories of the Word mixed with betrayals of the flesh, and Donna's mom bore Terrell's children in one of his secret households. Thousands of followers headed to cult-like communities to await the end of the world. Jesus didn't show, but the IRS did, and the prophet-healer went to prison. This memoir bypasses easy judgment to articulate a rich world in which the mystery of faith and human frailty share surprising and humorous coexistence.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781455111992
ISBN-10: 1455111996
Pagini: 7
Dimensiuni: 132 x 145 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: BLACKSTONE AUDIO BOOKS

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“What a life! Holy Ghost Girl takes you inside a world where God and sin and miracles and deceit and love are so jumbled together you can’t tell them apart. Donna Johnson sorts through her story with great insight, compassion and humor, giving us an indelible portrait of a charismatic preacher and the faithful who so desperately believed in him.”  — Jeannette Walls, author of New York Times bestsellers The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses

“Holy Ghost Girl turns, as good books must, from promising read into sure bet. Ms. Johnson’s enthralling memoir, her first book, is about growing up on the road in a clan of what she calls Holy Rollers.”

“A page-turning, thrilling tale set in the 1960/70s containing adultery, KKK face-offs, fasting to the point of collapse, child neglect/abuse, show business and family connection.”

“Sensitive and revelatory…an impressive achievement of perspective and maturity…a haunting and memorable book.”

“Compulsively readable”

“Therein lies the paradox at the center of Johnson’s story, in which faith and love live alongside anger and betrayal”

“A trustworthy narrator, Johnson is consistently funny, poetic and remarkably devoid of bitterness.”

“‘Holy Ghost Girl’ is the most compelling, exquisitely detailed, well-written memoir I have read in a month of Sundays.”

“Johnson’s fascinating and sometimes disturbing personal story is mixed with serious reflection … Holy Ghost Girl tells a harrowing, sometimes funny, story from a youthful insider’s point of view.”

"A wretching and extraordinarily beautiful memoir. If you're a fan of The Glass Castle, you'll be mesmerized by Donna M. Johnson's true-life tale of how her young life was upended by her mother's love affair with an infamous charismatic preacher."

Notă biografică

Donna M. Johnson has written about religion for The Dallas Morning News and other publications. Holy Ghost Girl won the Mayborn Creative Nonfiction prize as a work in progress. Donna lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, the poet and author Kirk Wilson.

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She was just three years old when her mother signed on as the organist of tent revivalist David Terrell, and before long, Johnson was part of the popular preacher's inner circle. As a teenager, she left the ministry for good with a trove of stranger-than-fiction memories.

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