- Alcoholics, Belief and doubt, Catholics, Clergy
Beautifully written . Very human, deeply spiritual. A book that resonates with life, it's struggles, its day to day routine that leads to introspection and encounters with God through simple people in everyday events, in a struggle for sobriety.
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Edwin O'Connor
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 460
- Publisher
- Thomas More Pr, Brand: Thomas More Pr, Loyola Press
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780829421231
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American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel The Edge of Sadness.
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