The Priest: A Gothic Romance
At the center of Thomas M. Disch's novel The Priest is Father Patrick Bryce, a Catholic priest with a present-day Minneapolis parish-and a pedophile past. He's spent time at a church-run retreat for priests of his type and returned "rehabilitated" and even better equipped to keep his vice active...
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At the center of Thomas M. Disch's novel The Priest is Father Patrick Bryce, a Catholic priest with a present-day Minneapolis parish-and a pedophile past. He's spent time at a church-run retreat for priests of his type and returned "rehabilitated" and even better equipped to keep his vice active and hidden. That is, until the blackmail begins, and each demand tops the next. Fiendishly comic and darkly hypnotic, The Priest is a spellbinding work that builds at breakneck speed to its gripping, gruesome, and eerily romantic finale.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780816672134 (081667213X)
Publish date: September 14th 2010
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Series: Supernatural Minnesota (#3)
This book, like all the Supernatural Minnesota series (this is volume 3), has so much going on in it at so many levels that that it is hard to distill it much less deconstruct it. On the surface it is a trashing of the Catholic Church, Scientology, and Pro-Lifers. Disch also takes a few swipes at hi...
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