The Healing Art

by A.N. Wilson

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140061223
• ISBN13: 9780140061222
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Miracle or mistake?

A.N. Wilson, who once studied for the priesthood, became the literary voice of conservatism and traditional values in England. He has always been interested in religion; he wrote a somewhat controversial but respectful biography of Jesus and another biography of St. Paul. In this novel Pamela Cowper learns that she has cancer with less than a year to live. She refuses chemotherapy and decides to fly to NYC to visit an old lover, John. She is a practicing Catholic, visits a holy shrine, and while in NY learns the cancer has disappeared. A miracle or just a mistaken diagnosis? Wilson explores this theme with sensitivity and care. Dramatically there's not a whole lot going on in the book, but Wilson examines Pamela's character with the skills of a master novelist.