Virgin with Child
Author | : Tom McDonough |
Publisher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1981 |
ISBN-10 | : UCAL:B4355088 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "As Father Jack Sullivan shambles through his quotidian duties at the Stella Maris Church in Brooklyn, he is prey to the temptations of his not-so-solid flesh. Not least of these temptations is Sister Marian, the demi-liberated nun who will become his lover. Slightly off-center stands the almost wholly nonverbal little altar boy, whose purity attests to the terrestrial nature of heaven and hell. The subject of the book is, finally Sin -- and by extension, guilt -- a preoccupation most notably marked by the absence of discourse or reflection about it. This is a wild and joyous psalm of blasphemy and beatitude, madness and miracle."--Jacket flap.