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ISBN10: 0156033968
ISBN13: 9780156033961
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Apr 14 2008
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.74 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780156033961
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Apr 14 2008
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.74 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
Always trust a stranger, said David's mother when he returned from Rome. It's the people you know who let you down.
Half a life later, David is Father Anderton, a Catholic priest with a small parish in Scotland. He befriends Mark and Lisa, rebellious local teenagers who live in a world he barely understands. Their company stirs memories of earlier happiness--his days at a Catholic school in Yorkshire, the student revolt in 1960s Oxford, and a choice he once made in the orange groves of Rome. But their friendship also ignites the suspicions and smoldering hatred of a town that resents strangers, and brings Father David to a reckoning with the gathered tensions of past and present.In this masterfully written novel, Andrew O'Hagan explores the emotional and moral contradictions of religious life in a faithless age.
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