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"Tony Hendra has accomplished one hell of a lot in his life, and doubtless has many achievements ahead of him, but this memoir of his spiritual journey, and the monk who guided it, will almost certainly be his masterpiece."-Christopher Buckley"I picked up Father Joe intending to read just a couple of pages before bed--and found that I couldn't put it down until I'd finished it. The nature of a wise man, and the true nature of what wisdom feels like in action, is beautifully captured in Tony Hendra's portrait of Father Joe, who is one of the few convincing saints in recent writing. The book's last episode, when Hendra brings his son to meet Father Joe, brought unexpected tears to my weary eyes."-Adam Gopnik"Father Joe is a many-layered memoir of a god-driven Englishman, Tony Hendra. When I read passages to my wife and my voice began to give way she said, Keep going, keep going. I really didn't need much urging. I could easily have read the whole book in one sitting but it's too rich, too powerful, overwhelming. Even when he's describing his days of wine, roses and rock and roll Mr. Hendra gives himself no quarter. There are furious paragraphs where he echoes Hamlet's 'Why, what an ass am I.' But we know, from the subtitle, 'The Man Who Saved My Soul' that salvation is down the road. Father Joe waits for this wild, satirical, loving, poetic, lusty, blasphemous penitent. You might see some of yourself in Tony Hendra. If you see anything of yourself in Father Joe you are blessed. Like me you might cherish this book so much you'll keep it on the shelf beside St. Augustine, St. Theresa of Avila, Thomas Merton, and when you dip into it you might hear Gregorian chant from the monks of Quarr."-Frank McCourt
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A key comic writer of the past three decades has created his most heartfelt and hard-hitting book. Father Joe is Tony Hendra's inspiring true story of finding faith, friendship, and family through the decades-long influence of a surpassingly wise Benedictine monk named Father Joseph Warrillow. Like everything human, it started with sex. In 1955, fourteen-year-old Tony found himself entangled with a married Catholic woman. In Cold War England, where Catholicism was the subject of news stories and Graham Greene bestsellers, Tony was whisked off by the woman's husband to see a priest and be saved. Yet what he found was a far cry from the priests he'd known at Catholic school, where boys were beaten with belts or set upon by dogs. Instead, he met Father Joe, a gentle, stammering, ungainly Benedictine who never used the words "wrong" or "guilt," who believed that God was in everyone and that "the only sin was selfishness." During the next forty years, as his life and career drastically ebbed and flowed, Tony discovered that his visits to Father Joe remained the one constant in his life--the relationship that, in the most serious sense, saved it. From the fifties and his adolescent desire to join an abbey himself; to the sixties, when attending Cambridge and seeing the satire of "Beyond the Fringe convinced him to change the world with laughter, not prayer; to the seventies and successful stints as an original editor of "National Lampoon and a writer of "Lemmings, the off-Broadway smash that introduced John Belushi and Chevy Chase; to professional disaster after co-creating the legendary English series "Spitting Image; from drinking to drugs, from a failed first marriage to asuccessful second and the miracle of parenthood--the years only deepened Tony's need for the wisdom of his other and more real father, creating a bond that could not be broken, even by death. A startling departure for this acclaimed satirist, Father Joe is a sincere account of how Tony Hendra learned to love. It's the story of a whole generation looking for a way back from mockery and irony, looking for its own Father Joe, and a testament to one of the most charismatic mentors in modern literature. "From the Hardcover edition.
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Product details
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; First Edition edition (May 31, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780812972344
ISBN-13: 978-0812972344
ASIN: 0812972341
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.6 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.1 out of 5 stars
194 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
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I bought this book with the highest hopes. It turns out that it's not a recollection of salvation, but a sad reminiscence of a man who lacks whatever Christian faith he may have once had.I don't feel comfortable reviewing this, since I stopped reading after a few pages (I wasn't getting anything "redemptive" about it), and skipped to the end to see that it wasn't about his return to the Church at all. Sorry, Tony! God bless you in spite of yourself.I hope I haven't misjudged Mr. Hendra. God bless him.
Someone loaned me this book years ago. I read it. I reread it. And I copied out many quotations. It was that good!It's about the author's checkered life. And it's about a monk who remained an anchor in his life. And how he finally turned his life around.I cannot recommend it highly enough.
This autobiography of conversion, unconversion and reconversion is amazing. During his remarkable life, Mr. Hendra has run the gamut of spritiual conditions: aspiring monk, exuberant pagan, guilt ridden lapsed-Catholic, suicidal pagan, spiritual dreamer, cynic, re-aspiring monk...Though it all, the one constant was this shy, soft-spoken monk, Father Joe, a humble man who carries the spirit of God so profoundly that it goes almost unnoticed.The narrative, like Mr. Hendra's life, runs the gamut, from intensely personal reflection and confession to philosophical speculation on the meaning of life. I particularly enjoyed a long segment near the end where he talks eloquently about the positive value of the Church in our lives and our world: his rich appreciation of the past, his belief that the past exists in the present, his understanding that rational thought can take us only so far, his affinity for mysticism, all display a refreshingly human outlook in the face of a world that is increasingly material and cynical.This most modern of men, a leader of cultural revolution, a wicked satrist of all that is holy, a man prone to excess of all kinds, turns out to be in his heart precisely the what his behavior is not. This conversion story gives hope to all who feel angst because of their contradictory feelings and behavior--in other words, pretty much everybody! I found this book fascinating, uplifting, impossible to forget.
I read this book because of repeated word of mouth recommendations and perhaps I expect too much. I was not familiar with the name Tony Hendra. As a young teen, Tony was introduced to a monk, Father Joe and his monastic lifestyle. The book is a worthwhile and very amusing biography of Tony growing up in Britain. He eventually became successful in the States becoming involved on the editorial staff of the National Lampoon magazine and Spinal Tap. He crossed paths with many celebrities. This was an easy fast paced book, and the farther one reads the more engrossed one becomes to discover the final outcome. A man that probably could have found inner peace with a monastic calling is living "Life in the Fast Lane" in LA and New York and seeks out Father Joe and monastic peace periodically when his life takes a downturn. I was a little disappointed because I thought the wild, out of control times, would be wilder and more out of control, but that is not fault of the author. The final chapter does contain a twist giving the book a feeling of completness. All in All, an story that is at once , amusing, informative, and has some seeds sown in for some deep thinking.
I am loving this book. I say this in the present tense becaue I am going to re-read it, possibly once a year. Actually I have been listening to the audio version and it is absolutely superb. I encourage any and everyone to listen to this book, read by the author himself.His rendition of Father Joe will never ever leave me and it's as if I've had my own personal Fr Joe right here with me. I love this book for all the above aforementioned 5 star review reasons.Instead I wanted to comment on some of the negative criticisms:One reviewer commented, "If you are looking for sage advice from Father Joe, you will find little of it in this book."????????? Wow. I am finding his sage advice through the ENTIRE book in relation to Tony's life experiences.Another commented that this is an "astoundingly self-aggrandizing book with copious namedropping....." EXACTLY! I think this is the whole point of Tony's story. I didn't get the feeling that Tony was very pleased with himself towards the end and it was pretty obvious that the trappings of the world didn't do it for Tony afterall which Fr Joe had gently been trying to show and tell him all along.Another wrote, "Those looking for a soul saving moment can save their money, there isn't one."Well, as Father Joe might say, wouldn't soul saving possibly be a (life) PROCESS and not a one moment in life happening for all of us? I guess also I took the title figuratively."This book containes little about Father Joe and even less about spirituality." My only reply to this is did we read the SAME book? Again I wonder if the audio version possibly affected me differently than if I read the book with just my eyes.One more and then I quit: "...I found the writer so unlikable that it was becoming painful to read." Again, this was kind of a 'duh' moment for me. He was totally unlikable! This is the point! God loves him (and each of us) anyway. Jesus did not just hang out with saints. In fact, wasn't he friends with sinners??? Had Tony been a beautifully spiritually together man, perhaps he wouldn't have had the relatioship with Fr Joe that he did.You can see I absolutely am nuts over this book and am buying several copies ...for myself and for other kindred spirits out there.
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