Philomena (Movie Tie-In): Philomena (Movie Tie-In): A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search Revised Edition Contributor(s): Sixsmith, Martin (Author), Dench, Dame Judi (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0143124722 ISBN-13: 9780143124726 Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - History | United States - 20th Century - History | Modern - 20th Century |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2013015511 |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.80 lbs) 448 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: New York Times Bestseller Now a major motion picture starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and nominated for four Academy Awards: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years 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 expos 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. |