- Fiction, Popes, Legends, Women
"Engaging . . . Pope Joan has all the elements: love, sex, violence, duplicity, and long-buried secrets."--Los Angeles Times Book ReviewFor a thousand years men have denied her existence--Pope Joan, the woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to rule Christianity for two years.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Donna Woolfolk Cross
- First published
- October 1, 1999
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Oversatttning Marianne Oerskog, Three Rivers Press, Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- Spanish, English, Italian, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9789176436653
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