Absolute Truths (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) - Hardcover

Howatch, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0783812191 ISBN 13: 9780783812199

Publisher: G K Hall & Co, 1995

Synopsis

Bishop Charles Ashworth finds his faith and morality shaken by his grief over the death of his wife and embarks on a spiritual quest in search of the absolute truths that have shaped his life

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LFUL BLEND OF CHARACTER, PHILOSOPHY AND
NARRATIVE. . .Formidable personalities embroil themselves in ruthless power struggles that would make a corporate raider blush."
--The Washington Post Book World
It is 1965, and Charles Ashworth has attained the plum position of bishop of Starbridge, an honor that keeps him in a heady whirl of activity that would exhaust the most seasoned corporate executive. With the invaluable support of his minions and his attractive, unsinkable wife, Ashworth stands against the amorality and decadence of the age--"Anti-Sex Ashworth." He slays his opponents by being a tough, efficient, confident churchman, the torments of his past long since dead and buried.
And then the unexpected, the unthinkable, strikes.
Suddenly Ashworth finds himself staring into the chasm of all the lies hes been telling himself for years: about his marriage, his children, even his views on the Church. And as he suspects his old nemesis and dean, Neville Ay

About the Author

Susan Howatch is a British novelist who has penned bestselling mysteries, family sagas, and other novels. Howatch was born in Surrey, England. She began writing as a teen and published her first book when she moved to the United States in 1964. Howatch found global success first with her five sagas and then with her novels about the Church of England in the twentieth century. She has now returned to live in Surrey.

Edition details

• Publisher: G K Hall & Co
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0783812191
• ISBN 13: 9780783812199
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 958