![]() ![]() ![]() Her attempts to reach happiness and carve out a career failed repeatedly, in spectacular fashion. Despite her departure from the convent she remained within the Catholic Church until the God she believed in 'died on me', and she entered a 'wild and Godless period of crazy parties and numerous lovers'. ![]() After seven years in a convent, which she left, dismayed by its restrictions, an experience recounted in 'Through the Narrow Gate', Karen Armstrong struggled to establish herself in a new way of life, and became entrapped in a downward spiral, haunted by despair, anorexia and suicidal feelings. A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world's great commentators on religion. ![]()
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Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vidal's parents divorced in 1935, and when his mother remarried Hugh D. ![]() According to Vidal, his mother drank often and had frequent outbursts, which caused disruption at home. His mother, Nina, the daughter of Oklahoma Senator Thomas Pryor Gore, worked as an actress. Roosevelt, heading the Bureau of Air Commerce. Vidal's father, Eugene Vidal, a former All-American football player and track star, worked under U.S. He often read to his grandfather as a boy, and soon developed a fondness for both literature and politics. 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