Do Not Go Gentle: My Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time - Hardcover

Hood, Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 031224259X ISBN 13: 9780312242596

Publisher: Picador, 2000

Synopsis

Ann Hood is firmly rooted in the physical world--practical, realistic, and skeptical about many things in life at the cusp of the second millennium. But despite these traits, she traveled all the way from Rhode Island to El Santuario de Chimayo in New Mexico with her newborn daughter, believing she could bring home a miracle for her dying father. Ultimately, Ann Hood discovered the courage to accept what had come her way, and an appreciation for the faith in miracles held by millions around the world.

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About the Author

Ann Hood is the author of six novels, including Ruby and Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine (both from Picador). She now lives in Providence, Rhode Island with her husband and two children

Reviews

This small book tells the story of the search for a miraculous cure, the death of a father and one woman's reconnection with her Catholic roots. Novelist Hood (Ruby; Somewhere off the Coast of Maine) became determined to find a miracle cure when her father was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. The product of generations of Italian-American Catholics, Hood followed her penchant for the mystical, leading her to look for signs, interpret dreams and wish for a magic potion. She traveled to Chimayo, N.Mex., where the Tewa Indians believe that the mud is curative and a chapel commemorates the healing miracles that have allegedly occurred there. Hood was looking for an incantation, for anything that would make the tumor vanish. This poignant memoir of grief is also a love story: "My father," Hood writes, "was the love of my life." She loved the way he whistled, the way he smiled, even the way he carried boxes of doughnuts. Unlike many young adults who give up their youthful adoration of Dear Old Dad, Hood only grew to cherish her father more as a grown-up. As she watched him die, Hood (who had become sophisticated, started attending Unitarian and Episcopal churches and even affected a bit of a New England accent) began to "reclaim [her] heritage" of faith and family. This memoir is every bit as breathtaking as the poem after which it is named. (Dec..-- heritage" of faith and family. This memoir is every bit as breathtaking as the poem after which it is named. (Dec.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 031224259X
• ISBN 13: 9780312242596
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256