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Any bitter thing : a novel / Monica Wood.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.O5948 A84 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, Monica.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Traffic accident victims--Fiction.
- Traffic accident victims.
- Child sexual abuse--Fiction.
- Child sexual abuse.
- Married women--Fiction.
- Married women.
- Catholics--Fiction.
- Catholics.
- Orphans--Fiction.
- Orphans.
- Clergy--Fiction.
- Clergy.
- Uncles--Fiction.
- Uncles.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 345 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2005]
- Summary:
- Long championed by writers including Richard Russo and Andre Dubus III, "Any Bitter Thing is Monica Wood's most powerful novel, a timely and deeply moving novel of faith, family, and hidden truths. After her parents were killed in a plane crash. Lizzy Mitchell was sent to live with her beloved Uncle Mike, a Catholic priest who raised her from the age of two. When Lizzy turned nine. Father Mike was dismissed from the church under allegations of impropriety with her--even though nothing happened--based on the testimony of the church maid and the feelings of many of the parishioners that a priest should not be raising a child. Any Bitter Thing is the story of a loving, responsible, devout, but flawed man undergoing a crisis of priestly commitment and participating adores, and to Vivienne, his only friend. In her search for the truth, Lizzy will discover both painful sacrifice and shocking betrayal in the people she thought she knew best.
- ISBN:
- 0811846040
- OCLC:
- 57349368
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