In Due Season - by Paul Wilkes (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>In Due Season</p> <p>Paul Wilkes wanted to be like social justice advocate Dorothy Day, and spend his life with the poor. He wanted to be like Thomas Merton, and spend his life behind monastery walls in prayer. He failed on both accounts. He only became himself.</p> <p>One of America's most respected writers on religious belief and spirituality, Paul Wilkes's search for God begins in a poor, working class family in Cleveland and winds through lonely nights in a factory, working his way through college; a surprising confrontation during the Cuban Missile Crisis; a torrid romance on the Indian Ocean; acceptance into an Ivy League school; and into the perfect marriage, which would fail.</p> <p>A man who seemingly had everything, one day he took scripture literally and gave up everything he owned to live with the poor. But then, in a dizzying turnabout, he became a person he eventually could no longer recognize in the mirror. He spent his summers in the Hamptons and lived the life of the man about town--single, facile, popular, hollow. He knew Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, and Kurt Vonnegut, but not himself. He sat at the feet of the Dalai Lama. He was an avowed hedonist. He lived as a hermit at a Trappist monastery. He found true love and ran from it. He was a true son of the Church and a sinner beyond anything he might have imagined.</p> <p>Paul Wilkes' life is one of abysmal failure and ultimate triumph, with a faith in God battered and tried in the crucible of his life.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>STARRED REVIEW <p>In an exquisite memoir that often reads like a novel, writer Wilkes (<i>In Mysterious Ways: The Death and Life of a Parish Priest</i>) recounts and reflects upon his life as a Catholic. Although his journey includes a decade as a Protestant and ongoing discomfort with certain aspects of Catholicism, Wilkes deftly mines its imagery and its figures, particularly the Trappist monk Thomas Merton, a major and recurring influence. As Wilkes meanders through a life that begins in a working-class Cleveland neighborhood, he candidly relates his passages of sin and saintliness, including a conversion-in-reverse when he gains fame as a writer and an interlude following the end of his first marriage in which he lives among the poor, caring for society's castoffs. Readers will experience his confusion, the decaying smell of [his] dying soul and his triumphs as they wonder if the it he seeks will find him and whether he will marry again or become a monk. This is fine, engrossing reading for all who appreciate the struggle inherent in the spiritual quest. (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, January 2009)</p> <p>Paul Wilkes has written the first 21st-century Christian classic. His <i>In Due Season: A Catholic Life</i> will rank alongside, not run second to, Thomas Merton's <i>The Seven Storey Mountain</i>. It is its companion volume. ? The bridge between ideals that Wilkes builds with this book carries the American Catholic story from the ghetto, through war, through Vatican II, through the hedonistic 1970s, through a changing church, through the ravages of affluence and easy money, to the questioning of today. ? <i>In Due Season</i> ranks alongside Merton's best because Wilkes absorbed Merton, then moved forward with him, and ultimately beyond him.<br /> --National Catholic Reporter, reviewed by Arthur Jones, published March 6, 2009.</p> <p>Paul Wilkes has written an honest and revealing memoir in which nothing is held back....<i>In Due Season</i> excels on many levels. Wilkes is a felicitous writer who can be read for the simple pleasure of connecting with a prose artist.<br /> --<i>The Boston Globe</i> (June 2009)</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Paul Wilkes</b> is an American writer, speaker, and filmmaker who is best known for his focus on religion, especially Roman Catholicism and its monastic tradition. Wilkes has written for the New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, and Atlantic Monthly. His book, <i>In Mysterious Ways: The Death and Life of a Parish Priest</i>, won a Christopher Award. In addition to Merton, his PBS documentary, Paul was host and writer of the acclaimed television series Six American Families, which won a duPont-Columbia award for documentary excellence.
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