Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row, Pub
Date Published: 1963
Description: Used-Good. Ex-Library. Hardcover. We individually inspect and grade each book. Our books are professionally packaged and processed quickly. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good Condition in Good jacket. 215 pages. Ex-library with typical marks, light wear and yellowing; sound book. THe dj has light wear; wrapped; taped to boards. "The story of an audacious newspaper, a hospice off the Bowery, a crusade for freedom and peace and the unswerving faith of a dedicated woman. " The Catholic Worker. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Inventory No: 079241. read more
Description: Collectible; Good. Good stated first edition hardcover (Harper & Row, 1963, 215 pages) in green cloth; convent-library discard with usual library markings; no dust jacket; dust jacket flaps and portion of jacket front have been cut out an neatly glued to front pastedown endpaper; pages clean, tight, unmarked; binding sound and square; promotional letter about the book from Thomas Merton has been glued to flyleaf; on its way to you the same or next day in bubblewrap; email confirmation; ... read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781570751561ISBN:1570751560
Description: Fine. 1570751560. 8vo-21 x 13.5 cm.; xviii-221 pp. A reprint of the original Harper and Row edition of 1963. Illustrated with black and white photographs. The story of the Catholic Worker, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, both a newspaper and a Catholic social justice movement that included St. Joseph's House of Hospitality in New York City. Through the doors came the poor and such as W. H. Auden, Max Bodenheim, Dwight MacDonald, the Kennedy boys. One page foreword by Thomas Merton with ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harpercollins
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780060617714ISBN:0060617713
Description: Acceptable. Text pages tight with only 6 or 7 sentences underlined. Cover has scattered scratches & some discoloration of outside exterior pages. A few pages have corner turned. Small sticker scar hole on first inside page. The story of the Catholic Worker Movement. Photos accompany text. Still a very readable copy. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Orbis Books
Date Published: 1997-09
ISBN-13:9781570751561ISBN:1570751560
Description: Very Good. From the shelves of my store. Light shelf wear. about 15 pages are highlighted. covers and spine like new. Great book for a reasonable and competitive price. Buy risk free and enjoy. I will ship promptly in a bubble wrap mailer. read more
Description: Very good cloth in very good dust jacket. 8vo. 215pp. Illustrated with photos. History of the Catholic Worker Movement. Prior owner name. Some occasionally pencil underlines on less than ten pages. read more
Description: Good. Light shelving wear with minimal damage to cover and bindings. Pages show minor use. Help save a tree. Buy all your used books from Green Earth Books. Read. Recycle and Reuse! read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row
Date Published: 1963
Description: Fair. M Harper & Row 1963 Later Printing no dj, Ex-library with usual markings, heavy edgewear to bottom of cloth, solid structure, light soil to page edges, clean tight unmarked text. Product Description215 pages with black-and-white photos. read more
Description: Good. Binding is tight. Some shelf wear, small bend to the bottom right corner of the front cover-resulting in a crack. "This companion memoir to Dorothy Day's autobiography, ...is her frank, compelling, deeply felt account of thirty years as leader of the Catholic Worker Movement and editor of its newspaper. Loves and Fishes completes that part of her story that she only 'touched upon' in [her previous book]. " 215 pages. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ORBIS BOOKS
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781570751561ISBN:1570751560
Description: Marking the centenary of Dorothy Day's birth in 1897, this new edition of Loaves and Fishes makes a modern religious classic available to a new generation. A companion to her autobiography, The Long Loneliness, this is Day's frank and compelling acco... read more
"Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was one of the founders of the Catholic Worker movement, a social justice movement founded in Catholic theology with a primary emphasis on nonviolence, hospitality for the poor, and communal living. Run by volunteers, "hospitality houses," which provide shelter, food, and clothing to the needy, are still in existence around the country.
Whether or not you are interested in any of these topics, agree with the theology, or make charity one of your life priorities, Day's story is nevertheless compelling. How many of us can say we are living our ideals? Day's plain-speaking, matter-of-fact depiction of how the movement started and what kept it going is an inspiring story of how a handful of people actually can make a difference in the world.
And her commentaries about the connection between credit, debt, and poverty reads as though it were written yesterday, not 45 years ago. This book may have fresh relevance given our current economic situation."
"This is a series of short pieces by Dorothy Day that describe the Catholic Worker movement and the communal life of poverty that they have chosen. The movement began in the 1930's and the book was written in 1963 and reflects the values of those times. I was often taken back to the ideas of the 1960's and 1970's and even to our life in the cabin in Idaho when we were trying to live simply and embrace poverty. One of my heroes, Thomas Merton, writes in the Forward that Day sees poverty as a religious mystery - that is probably the best description of the book. Day herself describes the array of people that are involved as often being called the "undeserving poor" or the net that Jesus cast into the sea and hauled in as "filled with fishes both good and bad." It is a remarkable attitude and even Day talks of times when maintaining this approach is difficult, although her frustrations are most often with the growing bureaucracy and not with her poverty and the undeserving poor.
If I had written this review after reading half of this little book (221 pages) I would have probably rated it a 4 or maybe a 5. However, by the end I was tired of poverty and tired of the unending difficulties - much as after four years at the cabin I was tired of being poor and tired of the experiment in simple living.
Still, I am glad that I read this book and rather embarrassed that I did not read it years ago.I chose it because one of my GoodReads friends listed the biography of Dorothy Day on his list. The biography was not readily available at my library but Loaves and Fishes was. I think I would like to read a good biography of this unusual woman."
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