Therese of Lisieux: God's Gentle Warrior
"[Nevin] shows readers the flesh-and-blood Therese who emerges from a careful stuy of her family history and a close reading of her entire corpus, including unpublished manuscripts, poetry, and plays. ...doubters (like this reviewer) begin to see, in the extreme integrity of her experience, what all of the fuss has been about."--hoice"Thomas R. Nevin's life of Therese is a gem: thoughtful, graceful, and groundbreaking in its exploration of material largely ignored by others. Nevin is deeply sympathetic to the life of the cloister, understands and appreciates Catholic principles and practices, and seems entirely at home in nineteenth-century French culture. In sum, this is a masterful portrait of a very important saint." -- Philip Zaleski, coauthor ofPrayer: a Historyand editor of theBest American Spiritual Writingseries.