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PASTORAL
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Andre Alexis |
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Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1552452867 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781552452868 |
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| Publisher: |
COACH HOUSE BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
13 May, 2014 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
A master novelist turns his hand to questions of faith - and talking sheep. |
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There were plans for an official welcome. It was to take place the following Sunday. But those who came to the rectory on Father Pennant's second day were the ones who could not resist seeing him sooner. Here was the man to whom they would confess the darkest things. It was important to feel him out. Mrs Young, for instance, after she had seen him eat a piece of her macaroni pie, quietly asked what he thought of adultery.Andre Alexis brings a modern sensibility and a new liveliness to an age-old genre, the pastoral.For his very first parish, Father Christopher Pennant is sent to the sleepy town of Barrow. With more sheep than people, it's very bucolic? too much Barrow Brew on Barrow Day is the rowdiest it gets. Bu things aren't so idyllic for Liz Denny, whose fiance doesn't want to decide between Liz and his more worldly mistress Jane, and for Father Pennant himself, who greets some miracles of nature? mayors walking on water, talking sheep? with a profound crisis of faith.'It's been clear since his debut novel, Childhood, that Alexis is one of our most distinctive and exacting prose stylists, and at its highest pitch, as in the breathtaking final paragraph, these are sentences that attain the level of the best music.' - Montreal GazettePraise for Andre Alexis's previous books:"Astonishing . . . an irresistible, one-of-a-kind work."? Quill & Quire"Alexis [has an] astute understanding of the madly shimmering, beautifully weaving patterns created by what we have agreed to call memory."? Ottawa CitizenAndre Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His books include Asylum and Ingrid and the Wolf. |
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Canada |
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Coach House Books |
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