In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir
"A remarkable story of a young man's loss of everything he deemed important, and his ultimate discovery that redemption can be taught by society's most dreaded outcasts." —John Grisham "Hilarious, astonishing, and deeply moving." —John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil...
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"A remarkable story of a young man's loss of everything he deemed important, and his ultimate discovery that redemption can be taught by society's most dreaded outcasts." —John Grisham "Hilarious, astonishing, and deeply moving." —John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil The emotional, incredible true story of Neil White, a man who discovers the secret to happiness, leading a fulfilling life, and the importance of fatherhood in the most unlikely of places—the last leper colony in the continental United States. In the words of Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler (A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain), White is “a splendid writer,” and In the Sanctuary of Outcasts “a book that will endure.”
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780061885075 (006188507X)
Publish date: June 2nd 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Book Club,
American,
Adult,
Health,
Medical,
Biography Memoir,
Southern,
Medicine
Im giving this 4 stars, but it is an average of two scores - 3 for the writing and 5 for the message.I wouldn't have looked twice at this book if a friend hadn't put it in my hands, insisting that I read it. Her dad read it and found it so moving that he bought a copy for each of his children. Tha...
Memoirs are funny things; one's appreciation of the entire memoir hinges on how well-received the writer is. If one does not like the narrator, then chances are that one is not going to enjoy the memoir. I have fallen on both sides of this situation; I have read memoirs where I was disgusted by th...
The Sanctuary of Outcasts, by Neil White, is a memoir. Yet, it is more than that. It is an expose of our prison system and our medical system, as well. It tells the story of what goes on behind the scenes in places ordinary man never ventures. At times it seemed surreal.It is the story of a man, who...
A driven writer and entrepreneur, Neil White, played fast and loose with other people’s trust, manipulated money around in a way that was frowned upon by our legal statutes, and found himself a guest of the government at a penal institution that also served as America’s last leper colony. In the San...