Chiseled: A Memoir of Identity, Duplicity, and Divine Wine - Hardcover

Pfeiffer, Danuta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1937303446 ISBN 13: 9781937303440

Publisher: Danuta Pfeiffer, 2015

Synopsis

In this gripping memoir, Danuta (Soderman) Pfeiffer, known to millions as the former co-host of The 700 Club with Pat Robertson, explains her sudden disappearance from the evangelical world and explores her chaotic past living under her father's imposing shadow.   This is a story of navigating identities through a remarkable life. Danuta Pfeiffer was an unwed teenage mother escaping to the tundra of Alaska; a journalist who inadvertently became a television evangelist with a ringside seat to a presidential campaign; a wife c aught in a web of deceit and substance abuse. Through it all, she clings to her father's legacy, sustained by his tales of fortitude and endurance when faced with the horrors of war. Finally, living happily as a winemaker in Oregon, she finds she must once more reinvent herself, when during a sojourn to the Carpathian Mountains of Poland she uncovers long-buried family secrets. Chiseled is the story of one woman brave enough to chip away at a life of lies and finally arrive at a shining core of truth.

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International Gold Medal Winner Readers Favorite Award
Finalist Eric Hoffer Award

John DeDakis
Former CNN Senior Copy Editor ("The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer")
"I come away from reading "Chiseled" with tremendous respect and admiration for her. This is a powerful and courageous memoir filled with onestunning twist after another. She reveals truths about herself that areas excruciating as they are liberating. The takeaway for me: the truthwill set you free, even if it hurts to tell it."
 
FIVE STARS! Reviewed by Kristine Hall, Readers' Favorite
"I highly recommend Chiseled, as Danuta Pfeiffer eloquently showsthat truth can be more dramatic and fascinating than fiction. Readersbe prepared to be angry -- and possibly shed a few tears -- but in theend, feel inspired."  
 
FIVE STARS!  -Reviewed by Jane Finch for Readers' Favorite
"This is an amazing story and I had to keep reminding myself that it wasa biography and not a work of fiction because the trials andstruggles that the young Danuta went through defies belief. . . It is atribute to the author that her writing was so descriptive and emotivethat I was unable to put it down until the end.  This story will staywith me for a long time. . . I give enormous credit to the standard ofwriting which made this a truly memorable read."
 
FIVE STARS! --Reviewed by Gisela Dixon for Readers' Favorite
"The writing style is fast-paced and engaging, and her voice comes across
as genuine and authentic. . . a gripping memoir and one that I enjoyed reading tremendously." 
 
Andrew Moravcsik
Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
". . . a wonderful book, splendidly written. "
 
Katherine Cole, The Oregonian, OregonLive
"The story reads like fast-moving fiction!"
 
Hilary Berg, Editor, Oregon Wine Press Magazine
"I could not put the book down. I found myself poring over the pages in my car, in a park, during work hours two days in a row. I was entranced. . ."
 
FIVE STARS!  Reviewed by Anne-Marie Reynolds for Readers' Favorite
"I found it gripping, one of those books that is not easy to let go of. As well as being the true story of her journey to find herself, to find the real truth about her life and her family, it's also a storythat encourages others to start their own journeys . . "
 
FIVE STARS! Reviewed by Maria Beltran for Readers' Favorite
"The journey to Alaska, told with snippets of a life she leaves behind, adds an element of thrill and expectation that makes the reader read onandon. In the final part of the book, her father's story and hercrumbling marriage make an interesting juxtaposition. And just as wethink we know how her story ends, it takes another turn that iscompletely unexpected. Hers is an extraordinary life told in a remarkable way!"

Edition details

• Publisher: Danuta Pfeiffer
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1937303446
• ISBN 13: 9781937303440
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 430