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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
235 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines international religious violence, growing public atheism in the West, and the author's religious rejection for his homosexuality, exploring subjects ranging from Jerusalem and the Silicon Valley to Lance Armstrong and Mother Teresa.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
143 p. : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Accompany a band of merry medieval pilgrims as they make their way-on motorcycles, of course-to Canterbury. Meeting at the Tabard Inn, the travelers, including a battle-worn knight, a sweetly pretentious prioress, the bawdy Wife of Bath, and an emaciated scholar-clerk, come up with a plan to pass time on the journey to Thomas �a Becket's shrine by telling stories. The twenty-four tales, which range from high romance set in ancient Greece to low...