The Long Loneliness (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Dorothy Day
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1897-1952
- Setting: Primarily New York
- Principal Characters: Dorothy Day, Forster Batterham, Peter Maurin
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Religion and spirituality
- Subjects: Social action, Self-discovery, Journalism or journalists, Memory, Politics, Revolutionaries, Socialism, Religion, God, Spiritual life or spirituality, Catholics or Catholic Church, Bohemianism
- Locales: United States
Form and Content
Dorothy Day’s “road to Rome” was far from straight and narrow. The Long Loneliness is an autobiographical account of the spiritual odyssey that brought her to Catholicism and to cofound the Catholic Worker movement. A writer by profession, she produced a book that reflects her expertise in conveying her feelings and beliefs to the average reader while at the same time satisfying the demands of the scholar. Her earlier autobiography, From Union Square to Rome (1938), was criticized by such diverse publications as Catholic World and...
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