Cathedral: An Illness and a Healing - Softcover

A pithy, poignant chronicle about the abbeys we build in duress and inspiration.--Edward Hoagland

A poetic memoir that details the cathedral's building process and wrestles with matters of mortality and spirituality.

On the face of it Cathedral is most akin to Henderson’s Tower: Faith, Vertigo and Amateur Construction (FSG), a Thoreau-esque chronicle of building a tall structure on the grounds of his hilltop property in Maine. But Cathedral is more overtly a spiritual memoir like his Simple Gifts: One Man’s Search for Grace (S&S), a tribute to the pleasures of singing hymns.Like all his books, Cathedral is equal parts wisdom, self-deprecation, laughs, aching honesty, and inspiration. And, like his cathedral itself, it is lovingly constructed.