Philomena
a mother, her son, and a fifty-year search
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Word Count
105,000 words, Guess
Page Count
420 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL26444635M
- ISBN-139780143124726
- ISBN-100143124722
- OCLC Control Number837144464
- OCLC Control Numberisbn_9780143124726
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2013015511
Classifications
- DDC941.7082092
- LCCHQ999.I73 S59 2013
Description
"When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman." Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Philomena's son was trying to find her. Renamed Michael Hess, he had become a leading lawyer in the first Bush administration, and he struggled to hide secrets that would jeopardize his career in the Republican Party and endanger his quest to find his mother. A gripping exposâe told with novelistic intrigue, Philomena pulls back the curtain on the role of the Catholic Church in forced adoptions and on the love between a mother and son who endured a lifelong separation." --
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