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Original Title:	The Long Loneliness
ISBN:	0060617519 (ISBN13: 9780060617516)
Edition Language:	English

The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist

Dorothy Day

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 4.08 | 3209 Users | 311 Reviews

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This inspiring and fascinating memoir, subtitled, “The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist,” The Long Loneliness is the late Dorothy Day’s compelling autobiographical testament to her life of social activism and her spiritual pilgrimage.

A founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and longtime associate of Peter Maurin, Dorothy Day was eulogized in the New York Times as, “a nonviolent social radical of luminous personality.” The Long Loneliness recounts her remarkable journey from the Greenwich Village political and literary scene of the 1920s through her conversion to Catholicism and her lifelong struggle to help bring about “the kind of society where it is easier to be good.” (Description from Amazon.)

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Title	:	The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
Author	:	Dorothy Day
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2009 by HarperOne (first published February 1952)
Categories	:	Biography. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Religion. Spirituality. Theology

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What a life! Dorothy Day is inspiring in her commitment to her faith, in putting her faith in action, despite the opinions, criticisms, and dogmas of others and of institutions. I admire her blend of anarchism and Christianity, and how by blending them, she cleaved to the truest core of those seemingly different ideologies and theologies, and demonstrated how very compatible (and necessarily so, if they are to be lived out instead of merely preached) they are. An exemplar of self-sacrifice, of

Summary: A memoir of the life of Dorothy Day up to 1952, describing her search for God and a meaningful life, her conversion to Catholicism, her catalytic friendship with Peter Maurin, and the early years of the Catholic Worker movement.This is the memoir of a woman who grew up in a middle class family, the daughter of a sports writer, a teen who read Upton Sinclair and Doestoevsky, spent two years at the University of Illinois, then left to pursue life as a writer on the lower east side of

Dorothy Day's life story is remarkable. In this, the story of her life, she goes into incredible detail about her family and her early days with a nostalgic faith and joy. She draws you into her life as a political activist turned social activist turned Catholic worker. And all this while falling for a man, having a baby out of wedlock and then having to choose between God and this man..Throughout her life, weaves one common thread--her search for and obedience to God. Her love of God and His

This book, an organic predecessor to Donald Miller, is well-written and very honest. The joining of Catholicism and what is basically a social communism does much to materialize a religion of Catholicism that has everything to do with reaching people where they live. As it is also written by a woman, it did much to reveal to me how the same ideas are viewed from the different perspectives of people who might share the same beliefs.

In many ways this is a difficult book - Dorothy was nothing if not difficult. Her reduction of Christianity to a lived pattern of daily actions (pray, feed the hungry, clothe the naked) leaves not much room for those things most of us view as essential (no matter how much she listened to the opera on the radio, or read Dostoevsky). It's a hard knock life.But, oh, the joy that came like an oil strike from those years of intensity! I was in New York City the night she died, riding a cab uptown,

Of course, I'd heard of Dorothy Day, but until I read her autobiography I never realized the scope of her work for the poor, the outcast, farmhands and city workers. She was never the "holier-than-thou" type, but a down-to-earth woman who saw injustice and worked to better the lives of many. Her conversion to Catholicism meant the end of her common-law marriage but involved her deeper in her work.When Dorothy Day died in 1980, the New York Times eulogized her as a "nonviolent social radical of

This is a pretty terrible book written by and about a woman who seems to deserve better. I first read it in my more politically radical college days, and I remember that I didn't like it much but pretended I did to build some Christian social action street cred. I started re-reading it a few weeks ago, and this time I gave up at page 200. Day is just a colossal failure as a writer. She presents the reader with essentially a stream-of-consciousness piece, like a more somber Jack Kerouac who