Shaping a Life
, by Powers, William F.- ISBN: 9780741448057 | 074144805X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 7/18/2008
The back cover of William F. Powers¿ 2006 novel, Love is Strong as Death, says that although not autobiographical, the book ¿draws from Powers¿ experiences as a Roman Catholic priest.¿ Shaping a Life also draws from that experience, but this time it is autobiographical. Ordained in 1959, Powers ministered for nine years in an inner city Brooklyn parish and for a year in suburban Queens. He then left the priesthood. Shaping a Life is his effort to reconstruct his life up to 1969 when, at age 34, he took off the Roman collar and ventured into the ¿real world.¿