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The edge of sadness / Edwin O'Connor.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Loyola classics seriesPublication details: Chicago : Loyola Press, c2005.Description: xii, 646 p. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 0829421238
  • 9780829421231
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "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."--P. [4] of cover.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction O'Connor Edwin Available 33111007036755
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1962, this haunting novel shattered reigning cultural stereotypes of priests and parish life when it was first published. Father Hugh Kennedy is a recovering alcoholic, commited to his vocation yet struggling with the demands of it.

"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."--P. [4] of cover.

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