The Bishop's Man
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781449810931
Publish date: 2010
Publisher: Recorded Books
Minutes: 12
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Religion,
Contemporary,
Canada,
Canadian Literature
Series: The Cape Breton Trilogy, (#2)
This is solid, psychologically sound and surprisingly good fiction from an author who's made his name as a journalist, and who, moreover, chose a ripped-from-the-headlines theme for his 2009 novel. He writes as his protagonist a senior Roman Catholic priest in eastern Canada, whose career has been t...
Book 2 in the Cape Breton trilogySynopsis is mainly taken from Wikipedia and expended with my own thoughtsThe story follows the life of a Catholic priest named Duncan MacAskill. In the 1970s MacAskill convinced a rural Nova Scotia priest who impregnated his own housekeeper to quickly move to Toronto...
A very well written examination of how different people deal with that which haunts them. I found the writing engaging and very visual. Excellent book.
Father MacAskill is known as 'The Exorcist' as it's his job to deal with instances of child-abuse and priests that break their vows of celibacy. Directed to keep such events hidden from the eyes of the media and the world, he becomes an expert in shunting priests sideways to other parishes and pers...
A quick and gut-reaction 5 stars. It took me at least half-way through to figure out what he was doing, and to shed the preconceptions of what I thought this book was going to be. The last 10050 pages are masterful. _______________________[later]This turned out to be a different novel, a better n...
5 years ago
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