Glamorous Powers

Author: Susan Howatch
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 0307775127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
The time is 1940. Jonathan Darrow is an Anglican priest when he receives a shattering vision and knows he must leave the monastery that has been his home for seventeen years. As he plunges into the temptations of the real world, a crisis sends him into the labyrinth of his past to pluck out the buried truth beneath the deceptions he has been living through. Praise for Glamorous Powers “Fascinating . . . convincing . . . believable.”—Newsday “Mesmerizing . . . holds the reader riveted.”—The Washington Post “Intriguing and wholly involving . . . Darrow is a willful, proud, manipulative man, struggling to subdue his tempestuous character. . . . The resulting crisis—in which Darrow finally faces the necessary process of uncovering deeply buried pain—underlines Ms. Howatch's concern with the continual play of light and dark in the human spirit.”—The New York Times Book Review “Gripping . . . You'll be quite transported. You'll also discover one of the most original novelists writing today.”—Cosmopolitan “Howatch is skillful at plot development and deftly handles [her] subject. . . . Her grasp of psychic experiences and the inner struggle between the urge to do spiritual good and the temptation to exert control make for an engrossing read.”—New York Daily News “Wise, witty . . . Holds the reader spellbound.”—Publishers Weekly

Glamorous Powers

Author: Susan Howatch
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780002232630
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 517

Book Description
Jon Darrow, a man with psychic powers, is a man who has played many parts: a shady faith-healer; a naval chaplain, a passionate husband, an awkward father, an Anglo-Catholic monk. In 1940 Darrow returns to the world he once renounced, but faced with many unforeseen temptations he fails to control his psychic, most glamorous powers. Corruption lies in wait for him, and threatens not only his future as a priest but his happiness with Anne, the young woman he has come to love.

The Power of Glamour

Author: Virginia Postrel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416561110
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
An exploration of glamour, a potent cultural force that influences where people choose to live, which careers to pursue, where to invest, and how to vote, offers empowerment to be smarter about engaging with the world.

Glittering Images

Author: Susan Howatch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780261662827
Category : Church of England
Languages : en
Pages : 794

Book Description

Glittering Images

Author: Susan Howatch
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000649689X
Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 516

Book Description
It is 1937, and Charles Ashworth, a Canon to the Archbishop of Canterbury, is sent to untangle a web of self-delusion and corruption at the episcopal palace of the charismatic Bishop of Starbridge.

Glamorous Powers

Author: Susan Howatch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Jonathan Darrow has been a faith healer, clergyman, loving husband, father and haunted widower. In 1940 he returns to the clerical world to serve God but finds it difficult not to succumb to potentially disastrous temptations and pressures.

The Power of Style

Author: Annette Tapert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
Reveals the inner qualities of 14 remarkable women who define style in ways that have lasted for generations. Witty and fascinating excursions into the worlds of Coco Chanel, Pauline de Rothschild, Diana Vreeland, Elsie de Wolfe, and others are captured in lavish photographs and entertaining anecdotes. We discover not only the preeminent influence that these women held over fashion and culture, but also the wry, often poignant tales of their personal lives.--From publisher description.

The Company of the Creative

Author: David L. Larsen
Publisher: Kregel Academic
ISBN: 9780825494321
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 644

Book Description
Great works and authors of the world are introduced and reviewed artistically, intellectually, and theologically. Persons discussed include Plato, Milton, Dickens, Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, and C. S. Lewis.

The Glam Witch

Author: Michael Herkes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578212029
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342

Book Description
Lilith has been feared, worshipped, analyzed, and dissected by many, yet she remains an enigma cloaked in a riddle of witchcraft. Today, she has found a place of elevation as a quintessential goddess in an array of occult practices, revered for her fierce independence, carnal appetite, and thirst for equality. The GLAM Witch plants the practice of modern witchcraft in Lilith's garden of glittery fruit. Laid out over a sparkling assemblage of chapters, a modern mystic will explore the theory, practice, and lifestyle of the Great Lilithian Arcane Mysteries (GLAM).Learn Lilith's story and how to apply her archetype to a magical path.Open your third eye to intuition with signs and synchronicity.Discover Lilith's astrological significance to help navigate the shadow self.Witch-craft a glamour poppet for attraction and beauty.Embrace your sexuality to harness power through orgasm.Neutralize negativity with the application of bitchcraft.Loaded with spells and rituals to cultivate confidence, sizzle with sensuality, and stand up to adversity, The GLAM Witch is a guide to spiritual empowerment and establishing unapologetic authenticity through magical means.

Glamour

Author: Stephen Gundle
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191623377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 485

Book Description
Glamour is one of the most tantalizing and bewitching aspects of contemporary culture - but also one of the most elusive. The aura of celebrity, the style of the fashion world, the vanity of the rich and beautiful, and the publicity-driven rites of café society are all imbued with its irresistible magnetism. But what exactly is glamour? Where does it come from? How old is it? And can anyone quite capture its magic? Stephen Gundle answers all these questions and more in this first ever history of the phenomenon, from Paris in the tumultuous final decades of the eighteenth century through to Hollywood, New York, and Monte Carlo in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from Napoleon to Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe, from Beau Brummell to Gianni Versace. Throughout, the book captures the excitement and sex appeal of glamour while exposing its mechanisms and exploring its sleazy and sometimes tragic underside. As Gundle shows, while glamour is exciting and magnetic, its promise is ultimately an illusion that can only ever be partially fulfilled.