Acts of Faith
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Acts of Faith is master storyteller Erich Segal's most moving and ambitious work to date: a spellbinding story of three extraordinary people whose lives are forever changed when sacred and secular worlds collide.
As the only child of Rabbi Moses Luria, Danny is destined to succeed his father as leader of the community of orthodox Jews who have made their home in a tiny corner of Brooklyn. He is also destined to break his father's heart.
His sister, Deborah, has been raised to be docile and dutiful, the perfect rabbi's wife. But she, too, will defy her father and venture into a world the patriarch would never dare imagine.
Timothy Hogan, abandoned at birth, raised in a stormy Irish household, seems headed for a life of delinquency - until a chance confrontation sets him on the road to the priesthood and a spectacular rise in the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
Daniel. Deborah. Timothy. Their lives will be inextricably interwoven into a fabric of love, loss and redemption. And for each of them will come a moment that demands an act of defiance - or an act of faith.
Spanning more than a quarter of a century, and moving with immediacy from the tough streets of Brooklyn to ultra-modern Brasila, from Montreal's famous "Main" to an Israeli kibbutz, radiating with the splendour of two holy cities - Rome and Jerusalem - Erich Segal's Acts of Faith is a towering novel of piety, passion, and politics, which explores the mysteries of religious faith to penetrate the ultimate mystery of the human heart.
As the only child of Rabbi Moses Luria, Danny is destined to succeed his father as leader of the community of orthodox Jews who have made their home in a tiny corner of Brooklyn. He is also destined to break his father's heart.
His sister, Deborah, has been raised to be docile and dutiful, the perfect rabbi's wife. But she, too, will defy her father and venture into a world the patriarch would never dare imagine.
Timothy Hogan, abandoned at birth, raised in a stormy Irish household, seems headed for a life of delinquency - until a chance confrontation sets him on the road to the priesthood and a spectacular rise in the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
Daniel. Deborah. Timothy. Their lives will be inextricably interwoven into a fabric of love, loss and redemption. And for each of them will come a moment that demands an act of defiance - or an act of faith.
Spanning more than a quarter of a century, and moving with immediacy from the tough streets of Brooklyn to ultra-modern Brasila, from Montreal's famous "Main" to an Israeli kibbutz, radiating with the splendour of two holy cities - Rome and Jerusalem - Erich Segal's Acts of Faith is a towering novel of piety, passion, and politics, which explores the mysteries of religious faith to penetrate the ultimate mystery of the human heart.
Journal Entry 2 by eltala at McDonalds in Beacon Hill, New South Wales Australia on Monday, May 24, 2004
Released on Monday, May 24, 2004 at Beacon Hill Mcdonalds in Beacon Hill, New South Wales Australia.
In the female toilets, by the basin.
In the female toilets, by the basin.
