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Book SynopsisA portrait of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement in New York City through photographs taken in 1955 by Vivian Cherry, a documentary photographer, accompanied by excerpts of Dorothy Day’s writings selected and edited by her granddaughter, Kate Hennessy.
Trade Review"Dorothy Day had a keen sense of the power of the image, and of the power of her image, and this means that Vivian Cherry's photographs are part of an extensive collection of photographs of Day and the Catholic Worker. But the strongest of these photographs show her as she isn't seen often enough: sitting with guests around a table, passing time with grandchildren, paying bills, taking out the mail, selling the paper alongside a Sabrett's hot-dog vendor. The photograph of her smiling-beaming, really-shows that delight was not a duty for her: It was a strong, natural, everyday feeling." -- -Paul Elie author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own and Reinventing Bach "This book is a magic lantern that brings Dorothy Day to life in all her miraculous humanity. Vivian Cherry's photographs and Kate Hennessy's moving text capture Day, with striking intimacy, in all the roles that defined her: as a woman of prayer and protest, companion of the poor, doting grandmother, and leader of the Catholic Worker family. Together with selections from Day's own writings, they transport us into a world in which seemingly ordinary people have tried, with extraordinary faith, to live as if the gospel were true." -- -Robert Ellsberg editor of Dorothy Day: Selected Writings
Table of ContentsIntroduction House of Hospitality The Line Chrystie Street Poverty The Paper The Paper The Street Protest and Prison The Farm Peter Maurin Farm Father Duffy Hans Tunnesen John Fillger Happiness Music Stanley Vishnewski Tamar and the Grandchildren Work of the Hands Prayer Epilogue
