Title: The Most Disappointing Biography of All
Product review: The author, an acknowledged friend of Henri Nouwen, suggests in his preface that he took a researcher's more objective approach to writing about Nouwen than writing from his personal knowledge of the man as friend. This is the poorest approaach anyone could choose. If I were a friend who was writing a biography about another friend, there is absolutely no question that I would write the story from my personal interactions than from research. I must say that this book, as a result of the very "academic, distant and studious" road the writer took to write it, is extremely poor. That it was published at all is quite disappointing."Plastic statutary on paper pulp"! Don't bother. Check out Michael Ford's excellent narrative published this year. It's an honest, well researched, close-up of Nouwen's life that does justcie to the man Henri was.James J. MaloneySaint Paul, Minnesota USA
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