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Ruth, a Portrait by Patricia Cornwell (1997, Hardcover) 
Ruth, a Portrait by Patricia Cornwell (1997, Hardcover)

 
Ruth, a Portrait by Patricia Cornwell (1997, Hardcover)

Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 1997-09-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0385488793
ISBN-13: 9780385488792
Product ID: EPID310581
Description: Best-selling mystery author Patricia Cornwell grew up in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from evangelist Billy Graham and his spirited wife, Ruth Bell Graham. It was Ruth who gave Cornwell her earliest encouragement to wr...
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Synopsis
Best-selling mystery author Patricia Cornwell grew up in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from evangelist Billy Graham and his spirited wife, Ruth Bell Graham. It was Ruth who gave Cornwell her earliest encouragement to write. She returned the favor in 1983 with her first effort at a Ruth Graham biography, "A Time for Remembering". Now out of print, her first book caused an eight-year breach in her relationship with Graham, during which she put aside biography for mystery writing with "Postmortem", the first novel to win the Edgar, Creasy, Anthony, and Macavity awards, as well as the French Prix du Roman d'Adventurei, in a single year. Now Cornwell returns to the subject of her first book with "Ruth, A Portrait", an air-brushed rendering that owes more to hagiography than biography.

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Publication Date:1997-09-01

Size
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:20.0 oz

Publisher's Note
Told in flowing and succinct prose, this portrait of Ruth Bell Graham, the world-famous evangelist Billy Grahams wife gives the reader a first-hand glimpse into some of the great events of the second half of this century. It follows Ruth Bell Graham first as a missionary child from war-ravaged pre-Revolution China and Korea, to peaceful Wheaton, Illinois, and then as a famous evangelists wife, to the Deep South, Post-War Europe, and the events in America since the 1950s. Far from showing us "The Revival Widow," Patricia Cornwell depicts Ruth Bell as a woman of extraordinary strength, will, and faith, who has influenced the face of modern Christianity. Inseparable from her husband, we learn much about Billy Grahams beliefs, his background, the evangelists private life, and witness his rapid climb to world prominence, and Ruth's invaluable contributions, support, and sacrifices to her family, and his.Patricia Cornwell, with this impressive account, has written a magnificent biography of a great American lady.

Industry Reviews
"A syrupy but engaging biography of the famous preacher's irrepressible wife....[in which] she comes across as a near saint, enduring a dangerous mission childhood in China, terrible migraine headaches as an adult (of which she 'never complained'), and marriage to a mostly absent husband....Yet whenever Cornwell allows this guise of saintly perfection to slip away, we glimpse a truly intriguing woman...."
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