Bishop's Daughter Pa

by Moore,Honor

• ISBN13: 9780393335361
• ISBN10: 0393335364
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-18
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Paul Moore's vocation as an Episcopal priest took him'” with his wife, Jenny, and their family of nine children'”from robber-baron wealth to work among the urban poor, leadership in the civil rights and peace movements, and two decades as the bishop of New York. The Bishop's Daughter is his daughter's story of that complex, visionary man: a chronicle of her turbulent relationship with a father who struggled privately with his sexuality while she openly explored hers and a searching account of the consequences of sexual secrets.

Author Biography

Honor Moore is the author of the poetry collections Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir. She wrote the biography The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter, which was named a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 9
Father
Prophet's Chamber	p. 21
Guadalcanal	p. 34
Inseparable	p. 47
Holy Matrimony	p. 61
Firstborn	p. 77
Becoming a Priest	p. 92
My Jersey City	p. 105
Four-in-Hand	p. 119
The Oldest	p. 135
Daughter
Light and Dark	p. 155
Thou Shalt Not	p. 169
In Public	p. 187
Eager	p. 202
The Family Cracks Open	p. 217
Killing Me Softly	p. 231
Art and Life	p. 247
Revelations
Women and the Kingdom	p. 263
Discovery	p. 281
Wayfarers	p. 298
Andrew Verver	p. 314
Complexity	p. 328
Footsteps	p. 341
Notes	p. 355
A Note On Sources	p. 359
Acknowledgments	p. 361
Photographs	p. 363
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