Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 240 pages
- Published by: Benbella Books November 1, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1932100822
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1932100822
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Book Dimensions:
7.5 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 10.4 ounces
Product Description
Filled with fond recollections and touching stories, these tales from hundreds of contributors pay tribute to nuns—those monochromatically clad monitors of the right, the wrong, and the holy. Catholic nuns are portrayed as devoted and passionate women who, armed with an arsenal of educational weaponry ranging from creative storytelling to psychological terrorism, had the massive responsibility of molding children into model citizens of God. The brief, descriptive anecdotes cover subjects ranging from religious training, habits, and devotion to discipline, pranks, and the always-dicey sex education. Readers are introduced to such legends-in-the-making as baseball-playing nuns, telepathic nuns, gun-toting nuns, and even skinny-dipping nuns. These nuns have seen it all—the silly or the sad, the frightening or sublime—and always keep their gazes directed upward.
About The Author
Danielle Schaaf is a public relations consultant. She lives in Houston.
Michael Prendergast is an attorney at a labor employment firm. He lives in Jacksonville, Florida.
Reader ReviewsHumorous and bittersweet, this is a good read for those who wish to both remember and share a vanishing era. The fact that a portion of the book's proceeds go to aid the elderly Religious made buying it all the more satisfying. Many of my friends received this book for Christmas; it's guaranteed to inspire discussion and laughter.
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