Author: Edwin O'Connor Year: 1961 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Award winners, Religion
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ISBNs: 9780829421231 0829421238 |
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"A realistic Christian novel of hope in a non-Christian age."-New England Quarterly
"A deeply felt and eloquently expressed work . . . A quiet, gentle novel of considerable insight and charm . . ."-Library Journal "O'Connor succeeds in delineating poignantly the overwhelming spiritual storms of the soul which assail the conscientious clergyman."-The Christian Century
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction In this moving novel, Father Hugh Kennedy, a recovering alcoholic, returns to Boston to repair his damaged priesthood. There he is drawn into the unruly world of the Carmodys, a sprawling, prosperous Irish family teeming with passion and riddled with secrets. The story of this entanglement is a beautifully rendered tale of grace and renewal, of friendship and longing, of loneliness and spiritual aridity giving way to hope.
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